From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Trouble building 1.8.x Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:46:17 +1100 Message-ID: <87wt4320g6.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <87d560ho15.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87wt46nzg3.fsf@zip.com.au> <459A02AE.9060703@cs.helsinki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167864396 19052 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2007 22:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development , Neil Jerram Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 03 23:46:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H2EsQ-00026q-Re for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:46:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2EsQ-0003uO-9w for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:46:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2EsL-0003tz-Od for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:46:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2EsJ-0003tP-UJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:46:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2EsJ-0003tM-Op for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:46:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [61.8.2.231] (helo=mailout2.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H2EsJ-0002h5-7X for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:46:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.163]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9246210B175; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:46:18 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2908.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.41.8]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC7627413; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:46:19 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2EsD-0000DT-Fx; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:46:17 +1100 Original-To: Heikki Lindholm Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <459A02AE.9060703@cs.helsinki.fi> (Heikki Lindholm's message of "Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:58:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6397 Archived-At: Heikki Lindholm writes: > > I also failed miserably at generating the configure scripts. So, how > about telling THE mechanism that people are using to do a reconf? I usually just go "aclocal", then remember it needs "-I guile-config", then remember it also needs either libtoolize or gettextize or both, then I undo some of the damage^H^H^H^H excess changes gettextize made, then it should be autoconf and automake. Then I see automake's silly C include file dependency tracking wasn't disabled by the project so I re-run "automake -i" and hope that setting sticks. :-) >>From a cvs update it's normally enough to have --enable-maintainer-mode, the makefiles then re-run the configury as necessary. (Sometimes it won't recognise a new directory - new directories are pretty rare though - and you have to run ./config.status explicitly, or do a fresh ./configure run.) I can see why all that farting about would make people want an autogen.sh, but I've rarely known one to do much good, or even make it clear what it is actually doing :-(. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel