Re: [Gnucap-devel] Autotools build system

[al davis]

On Sunday 21 June 2009, David Fang wrote:
> You are probably missing libtool's development headers.  If
> you're using a package manager, can you make sure that
> packages like 'libltdl-dev' are installed?

ok .. installed it ..

(an unchecked dependency??)

now ..

.......

address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11/gnucap-2009-06-11>./autogen.sh 
Running libtoolize...
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
libtoolize: `libltdl/config/compile' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `libltdl/config/config.guess' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `libltdl/config/config.sub' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `libltdl/config/depcomp' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `libltdl/config/install-sh' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
.......
.......
libtoolize: `libltdl/ltdl.h' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `libltdl/slist.c' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: You should add the contents of the following files to `aclocal.m4':
libtoolize:   `libltdl/m4/argz.m4'
libtoolize:   `libltdl/m4/ltdl.m4'
libtoolize: or else add `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([libltdl/m4])' to configure.ac.
libtoolize: Remember to add `LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR([libltdl])' to `configure.ac'.
libtoolize: Consider using `AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([libltdl/config])' in 
configure.ac.
libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
Running aclocal...
/usr/share/aclocal/gtk--.m4:10: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTKMM
/usr/share/aclocal/gtk--.m4:10:   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
/usr/share/aclocal/gtk--.m4:10:   or see 
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
configure.ac:43: error: `libltdl' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:1093: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS is expanded from...
configure.ac:43: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1


ok .. let's start over ...
address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11/gnucap-2009-06-11>make clean
make: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.

ok .. let's REALLY start over ...

address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11>rm -rf gnucap-2009-06-11
address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11>tar xvf 
gnucap-2009-06-11.tar.gz 
gnucap-2009-06-11/
gnucap-2009-06-11/src/
gnucap-2009-06-11/src/ap_skip.cc
........
........
address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11>cd gnucap-2009-06-11
address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11/gnucap-2009-06-11>patch -p1 
<../gnucap-2009-06-11.patch 
patching file Makefile.am
patching file autogen.sh
patching file configure.ac
patching file modelgen/Makefile.am
patching file src/Makefile.am
patching file src/c_attach.cc
patching file src/main.cc
address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11/gnucap-2009-06-11>./autogen.sh 
Running aclocal...
/usr/share/aclocal/gtk--.m4:10: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTKMM
/usr/share/aclocal/gtk--.m4:10:   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
/usr/share/aclocal/gtk--.m4:10:   or see 
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
configure.ac:43: error: `libltdl' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:1093: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS is expanded from...
configure.ac:43: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11/gnucap-2009-06-11>

In case it might actually work ...

address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11/gnucap-2009-06-11>./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
......

(why does it check for gawk?????????)

......
** Configuration summary for gnucap 2009-06-11:

   prefix:                   /usr/local
   CPPFLAGS:                  -DNDEBUG
   CFLAGS:                   
   CXXFLAGS:                 -g -O2
   LDFLAGS:                   -rdynamic
   LIBS:                     -ldl -lreadline -ltermcap 


address@hidden:/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11/gnucap-2009-06-11>make



g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..   -DNDEBUG  -g -O2 -MT c__cmd.o -MD -MP -MF 
.deps/c__cmd.Tpo -c -o c__cmd.o c__cmd.cc
mv -f .deps/c__cmd.Tpo .deps/c__cmd.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..   -DNDEBUG  -g -O2 -MT c_attach.o -MD -MP -MF 
.deps/c_attach.Tpo -c -o c_attach.o c_attach.cc
c_attach.cc:26:29: error: ../libltdl/ltdl.h: No such file or directory
c_attach.cc: In member function 'virtual void<unnamed>::CMD_DLOPEN::do_it(CS&, 
CARD_LIST*)':
c_attach.cc:88: error: 'lt_dlhandle_struct' was not declared in this scope
c_attach.cc:88: error: expected primary-expression before 'const'
c_attach.cc:88: error: expected ';' before 'const'
c_attach.cc:89: error: 'mh' was not declared in this scope
make[2]: *** [c_attach.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11/gnucap-2009-06-11/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/al/gnucap/gnucap-2009-06-11/gnucap-2009-06-11'
make: *** [all] Error 2