[haiku-development] Re: Compiling autotools
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:45:20 +0200 CEST
>
> On 2008-04-07 at 00:47:07 [+0200], Andreas Färber <
> andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Am 06.04.2008 um 23:47 schrieb Ingo Weinhold:
> > > On 2008-04-06 at 19:28:45 [+0200], Andreas Färber <
> > > andreas.faerber@xxxxxx
> > > wrote:
> > I made only minor changes to apr, mostly concerning function
> > declarations (misc/unix/errorcodes.c, threadproc/beos/proc.c,
> > network_io/beos/sendrecv.c); the rest of my patch is mainly
> > silencing
> > warnings in maintainer mode due to their ugly use of #if. apr's
> > make
> > check does not build due to an undefined reference to
> > pthread_setconcurrency.
>
> Whatever that is exactly, ideally Haiku should implement it. :-)
>
> > apr-util's make check crashes in the APR Queue Test.
> > I have had subversion 1.4.x branch running and successfully
> > updating
> > several http:-based repositories. Its make check (and auto*
> > regeneration) requires Python though.
>
> Well, you know what that means for you, don't you? :-P
> Seriously though, I wouldn't really consider porting APR done until
> the full
> test suite runs and there's a harmless explanation for any test that
> fails
> (like a missing feature in Haiku) -- ideally all tests would pass, of
> course.
>
> > Is there any recipe for creating optional packages?
>
> Not really. For the first ones I created, I renamed ~/config, ran
> "make
> install", and zipped the new ~/config. That obviously doesn't work,
> if
> ~/config contains anything that's needed for the "make install". So I
> wrote
> this little tool "diff_zip" (committed to the repository in r24849),
> which
> recursively scans a directory (or more than one, or files), waits for
> a key
> to be pressed, rescans the directory, and passes all files, that have
> been
> added or changed between the two scans to a zip invocation. I usually
> run it
> like this:
>
You do know most (not all) autoconf based apps can be installed with
DESTDIR:
DESTDIR=/somewhere make install
it will prepend /somewhere to the paths when copying but install as if
it wasn't here.
That way you can just zip up the folders.
François.
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