[haiku-development] Re: Compiling autotools
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:22:25 +0200
On 2008-04-05 at 20:46:58 [+0200], Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are there any guidelines for compiling autotool + configure based software?
>
> currently, i'm trying ./configure --build=i586-pc-haiku
> --prefix=/boot/home/config
> however, with this there's some problems with configure thinking that
> either the gcc or g++ linker cannot handle shared libraries.
>
> more specifically, are there any lines in configure scripts that
> should be edited or added for haiku?
Ideally not. The best way is to regenerate the build system using the auto
tools. Some software packages include a script to do that (e.g.
"bootstrap"), oftentimes the downloadable release packages do not, though.
Sometimes running "autoreconf --force" just works. If it doesn't you might
need to run the tools individually. The linker related errors should go away
after rerunning libtoolize (in doubt with "--force").
We are still missing the gettext ("autopoint") package, which is often used
for auto tools generated build systems. This would be one reason why
autoreconf might refuse to work.
CU, Ingo
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