Re: Problem with VAR=value ... ./configure

[guile-devel]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:24:27AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> I'm nearly done packaging Guile 1.5 for NetBSD, but now i'm
> seeing this problem:
> 
> If i run this (slightly contrived) configure command:
> 
> CC=cc LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pkg/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/pkg/include CFLAGS="-Wall -g" 
> ./configure
> 
> it runs along doing its thing for a while before finally:
> 
> configure: configuring in libltdl
> configure: running /bin/sh './configure'  LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pkg/lib 
> 'CFLAGS=-Wall -g' CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/pkg/include CC=cc --enable-ltdl-convenience 
> --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
> configure: warning: LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pkg/lib: invalid host type
> configure: warning: CFLAGS=-Wall -g: invalid host type
> configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
> configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for libltdl
> sed: confdefs.h: No such file or directory
> zsh: exit 1     CC=cc LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pkg/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/pkg/include 
> CFLAGS="-Wall -g"
> 
> Thi is probably the last thing holding me up.  I've never seent
> this kind of error before.  What's up?

Is libltdl/configure generated by autoconf 2.13 or 2.50? If the
latter, you should not have a problem. If generated by 2.13,
regenerate with 2.50. 2.50 and later allow passing environment
variables as an option to configure.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)