Re: [XForms] Re: [Xforms-cvs] First time CVS download.

[Angus Leeming]

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 5:49 pm, Serge Bromow wrote:
> Still doesnt work for me.

Ok, then before we try and get to the bottom of this cvs stuff, let's see if 
you can use a dist that I packaged together (with 'make dist'). This package 
needs no autotools at all. Just unpack it, followed by:
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure --enable-demos
$ make

Find it at http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/xforms-1.0.2.tar.gz
It's 965kB in size.
Entertainingly, the xforms-1.0 release is 989kB in size.

We'll continue to try and get things working for you with cvs but, to be 
frank, it's more important that the dist 'just works', for obvious reasons.

Indeed, I'd value it if you could try out
$ make rpmdist

That said, let's return to the world of cvs...

> We must be missing something obvious!
> What version of Autoconf are you using?
> I will try that version.

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A PC running RH8:

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3
address@hidden angus]$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.53

$ ./autogen.sh
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-demos CFLAGS='-W -Wall 
-Wno-unused-parameter -O2'
$ make

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A Dec Alpha running Debian unstable:

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.58

$ ./autogen.sh
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-demos CFLAGS='-W -Wall 
-Wno-unused-parameter -O2'
$ make -j2

... oops. The demos don't 'make -j2'. 'make' does work however. Must 
investigate... Fixed and committed to cvs.

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A Dec Alpha running Tru64 unix 4.0d and using the native cc. Although an old 
OS, I have modern versions of automake and autoconf installed.

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.58

$ ./autogen.sh
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure CFLAGS='-std1' --with-extra-prefix=/usr/local 
--enable-maintainer-mode --enable-demos
$ make

... yikes! The generation of forms.h failed! ... Ok, fix committed to cvs.
... yikes2! The generation of the demos failed! ... Ok, fix committed to cvs.

So, in conclusion, I can now build the sources from cvs on three very 
different systems. They do all, however, use fairly modern versions of the 
gnu autotools and I did need to make some changes.

Hope all this info proves useful.
Angus

ps, note that the file http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/xforms-1.0.2.tar.gz 
is generated from the very latest version of cvs (ie with the fixes for the 
above problems in).

pps I have just spent 4 hours making and remaking this stuff on these three 
platforms. srcdir same as and different from builddir, from the cvs sources 
and from 'make dist'. I hope that I've ironed out all the pitfalls 'cos I am 
now all maked-out. 
Ahh well, the trials of putting my head above the parapet ;-)

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