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Re: problems building stable branch
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Michael Livshin |
Subject: |
Re: problems building stable branch |
Date: |
10 Jul 2001 16:22:11 +0300 |
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 13:29:00 appel ~/usr/src/guile/guile-core$ ./autogen.sh
> > > autoheader2.50: libguile/scmconfig.h.in is unchanged
> > > automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified
> > > guile-readline...
> > > automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified
> >
> > do you really not have Makefile.am in ~/usr/src/guile/guile-core ?
>
> But I do have a ~/usr/src/guile/guile-core/Makefile.am. Only when I
> do
> automake Makefile
>
> it generates Makefile in. That's why I needed the automake $(find
> -name Makefile.am ...) command.
whee. what's your automake version? does it have problems with
PowerPC in general or something? weird.
> > what happens when you do a fresh checkout?
>
> That's what I did:
>
> 13:27:27 appel ~/usr/src/guile$ cvs -z3 co -r branch_release-1-6
> guile-core
>
> Still, the ice-9 directory depends on it's own guile, which is bad.
it's not bad at all when it works. ;)
> Also, the -ldl library flag isn't added automatically.
maybe libtool doesn't cope too well with you platform. hmmm.
[ and I thought -ldl wasn't needed on Linux at all, as the relevant
functions are in libc. is that some experimental glibc version? ]
> Btw, I'm running latest debian/unstable (on powerpc).
what can I say? ouch. ;)
> > --
> > Tools that are no good require more skill.
>
> :-) Is that a coincidence?
yes.
> I still think that automake is a broken concept, I like LilyPond's
> stepmake package a lot better.
I don't think you'll find a lot of automake lovers on this list,
either. but it gets the job done, usually.
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