FreeLists / beports / [beports] Re: ./configure

[Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am 01.05.2008 um 00:33 schrieb scott mc:

> In Haiku when I get a package that requires running ./configure it
> usually bombs out not know how to handle Haiku.  Are you guys seeing
> this as well?  And how are you getting around it?
That's what the --build=i586-pc-beos is for, as a workaround. That way  
it thinks it is being configured under BeOS and usually knows how to  
adapt.
http://tools.assembla.com/BePorts/wiki/PortingTips#gcc2.xdefault

The real solution is to replace config.guess, config.sub and ltmain.sh  
with Haiku's local versions, which usually happens when you run the ./ 
autogen.sh (or ./auto_gen.sh or ./buildconf) script when working from  
the original repository. Sometimes it may be necessary to remove them  
first in order to be replaced. But after doing so, you may have to add  
support for *-*-haiku* (or *-*-haiku) to the configure script first to  
avoid -lm issues and the like.
Note, the Haiku-related changes in those files are preliminary by Ingo  
and were asked not yet to be merged upstream.
Not sure how to handle this mid-term - we might opt to not include  
these files in upstream patches (sometimes they are versioned,  
sometimes not), but the changes necessary to configure.{in,ac} for  
i586-pc-haiku are probably already mergeable, no? I'd assume an  
expression like *-*-haiku* will hold.
Andreas

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