Hi Ingo, On Mon, Sep 22 2014 at 10:38:40 PM, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > You might also wish to add a sentence like the following to > INSTALL.REPO, right after "1. Initial build", before "First invoke > the bootstrap script:" > > On operating systems supporting concurrent installation of multiple > versions of the autotools, set the following environment variables: > > export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.12 > export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.65
Good suggestion, I've added a short explanation in INSTALL.REPO (commited). > Regarding the configure script, here is a list of things it gets > wrong: > > - it prefers /usr/local/bin/ggrep over /usr/bin/grep in both > of the following tests: > checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... > checking for egrep... > > - it prefers /usr/local/bin/gmkdir over /bin/mkdir in the test > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p > > - checking for style of include used by make... GNU > that makes no sense at all, it's a POSIX-compatible BSD make > > - it prefers /usr/local/bin/gsed over /usr/bin/sed > > - it prefers /usr/local/bin/bison over /usr/bin/yacc > > Prefering the GNU versions over the native POSIX versions is bad > because it causes needless build dependencies. OK, but all this will happen on master too. If needed, we can work on that after the automake migration. > And then finally, "make" dies here: > > FILEMODE=`echo contrib/groffer/roff2dvi.man | \ > sed 's|contrib/groffer/roff2\([a-z]\+\)\.man|\1|g'` && \ > sed -e 's/[@]ROFF2MODE[@]/'"$FILEMODE"'/g' \ > ../contrib/groffer/roff2.man > contrib/groffer/roff2dvi.man; > sed: 1: "s/[@]ROFF2MODE[@]/contr ...: bad flag in substitute command: 'r' > *** Error 1 in . (Makefile:8589 'contrib/groffer/roff2dvi.man') > *** Error 1 in /co/groff/build (Makefile:3713 'all') > > The problem here is that basic regular expressions don't have a "+" > bound. So the subexpression needs to be written as > > \([a-z][a-z]*\) Commited too. > With that issue fixed, the build finishes. I can't say yet > whether it's correct and works. > > I didn't come round to testing "make dist" yet, but wanted to report > what i found so far, anyway. Thanks for testing ! Regards, -- Bertrand Garrigues
