From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Thu Jan 07 1999 - 04:54:05 EST
On Jan 7, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Oh, and btw, cygwin is still broken (for confdir != srcdir at least.)
Strange. I got it working like that at my parents'... Despite the
Math.h problem.
>> BTW, I'm ready to install the automake/libtool changes, should I do it
>> in the trunk or a branch would be better?
> You can of course do as you please, but I'd prefer to read the
> FAQ/FAQ.automake file first and base my opinion on that.
I don't know what I'd have to write in that file. Changes were mostly
straightforward, and nothing really important has changed in the build
environment. I could list a few here:
- `make depend' is now implicit, but it only works with gcc and GNU
make. A distribution file with portable makefiles should be created
with `make dist'
- `make test' is now called `make check', which is much more standard
- in order to modify the Makefiles and configure.in, you need rather
recent versions of autoconf and automake. autoconf 2.13 (just
released) and automake 1.4 (to be released soon, currently available
via CVS) should be fine. I'm not sure you really need the newest
automake, but I'm sure that you need at least autoconf 2.12.2 (never
officially released)
- I added a new flag, --with-staticvm, to make only the VM library
static. --with-includes and --with-libraries were also introduced, to
allow the user to specify a list of directories to search for
include-files and libraries.
You may miss one or other make target that I may have eliminated from
the Makefiles, for example, recursive `make classes' and `make
derived-files'. It should be straightforward to re-create them within
Makefile.am's, but I'd prefer to avoid these, and create actual
dependencies to ensure that derived files are re-created as needed.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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