configure busybox

2001-09-19 Thread Glenn McGrath
Hi, im trying to make a project im involved with (http://busybox.lineo.com/) more portable, specifically i want to make it compile under GNU/Hurd as well as linux. My initial thoughts were that autotools would be ideal, but busybox is an unusal project and im unsure how to go about it. Busybox i

Re: configure busybox

2001-09-20 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:47:17 -0400 Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Current build process goes roughly as follows, there is a manually edited > > config file (Config.h, not to be confused with the autotools config.h) that > >

Re: configure busybox

2001-09-20 Thread Glenn McGrath
Hi, thanks for all your replies and suggestions, unfortunately i dont see a clear path ahead. ill have to think longer on this. Glenn

excaping the , seperator

2002-02-04 Thread Glenn McGrath
Im trying to modify dmalloc's configure.in to use gcc as a linker instead of ld. I added the lines if (gcc -shared -Wl,-soname conftest.so -o conftest.so.t conftest.a) 2>&5; then ac_cv_shared_link_args='gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,$@ $(LIBRARY) -o $@.t'(other conditions)

Re: excaping the , seperator

2002-02-04 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:33:14 -0800 "Bruce Korb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > > Im trying to modify dmalloc's configure.in to use gcc as a linker > > instead of ld. > > > > I added the lines > >

Re: excaping the , seperator

2002-02-04 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 00:33:04 -0500 (EST) "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn McGrath writes: > > > I think autoconf is using the comas as seperators > > I think you're not quoting your arguments correctly. > > (Search the Autoconf

best practices configure.ac's

2002-05-15 Thread Glenn McGrath
Quite often i find myself looking at different projects configure.ac to see how they do it, however often projects still using the old configure.in, or dont solve the problem i have. It may be usefull if there were a list of active projects that serve as good examples of how it should be done. D

install-sh not found when AC_CONFIG_AUX() used

2002-07-11 Thread Glenn McGrath
I want to keep the root dir of my project as clean as possible so im trying to use a seperate directory for the autotool scripts. In my configure.ac i have AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(./buildtools) I do the following to add the required autotools files $ automake --add-missing configure.ac: installing `

Re: install-sh not found when AC_CONFIG_AUX() used

2002-07-11 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:20:49 -0700 (PDT) "Paul Eggert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:36:57 +1000 > > > > AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(./buildtools) > > ... then when i run ./configur

Re: install-sh not found when AC_CONFIG_AUX() used

2002-07-12 Thread Glenn McGrath
On 12 Jul 2002 10:22:05 -0600 "Tom Tromey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like there may be an ordering problem. > I think we may still fail to diagnose some of those. > We'll need more information. The output of configure from the > beginning through the error might be sufficient. To k

Aha... AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR has to be used before AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

2002-07-12 Thread Glenn McGrath
> AC_INIT(hello.c) > AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(autoscripts) > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hello,0.1) > AC_PROG_CC > AC_PROG_INSTALL > AC_OUTPUT(Makefile) That works... the AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR statement has to happen prior to AC_INIT_AUTOMAKE, maybe it was a newbie error on my behal

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-13 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:57:46 -0400 (EDT) Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Tom! > > If you are going to make a fork, add a well-behaving shell to the > requirements and leave out everything else. I know a project with > configure script longer than 500k. Uncompressed sources o

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-14 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 05:38:49 +1000 Dean Povey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How could you distribute a binary to run on all the different kinds of > >systems? I use Cygwin and MinGW. Am I going to be excluded from Open > >Source packages because the package maintainer decided not to provide > >su

make distcheck arguments

2003-03-18 Thread Glenn McGrath
Im involved with a project that supports the use of two crypt libraries, i can do either ./configure --with-gcrypt to use libgcrypt or ./configure --with-crypto to use openssl. If no options are given it will first try and use openssl, then gcrypt. I do compile it --with-gcrypt without any proble