From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 07 1999 - 05:07:50 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.
That was a recent change I put in where I access HUGE_VAL --- before
that, it wouldn't make a difference... oh damn I just realized that I got
it all wrong (I did the fix without testing it)
It's not that it finds <math.h> instead of Math.h, it's the other way
around. The real <math.h> wasn't found, which is why it complained
about HUGE_VAL.
I think we have to rename Math.h.
>
> >> 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:
An explanation for people not familiar with libtool/automake.
Nobody asks you to duplicate libtool documentation.
Restrictions. Requirements. Peculiarities in the way you used libtool.
Caveats. Everything you know and others are unlikely to know.
Everything that could help new developers to become familiar with
kaffe's build environment faster.
I mean, like FAQ.depend or FAQ.INSTALLROOT: it's all stuff that's
pretty or even utterly straightforward, yet I would claim it's useful in
the short and long run.
>
> - 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 bet you need perl5 too.
- Godmar
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