Using automake/libtool causes SegF

2000-08-27 Thread Alexander Olefirenko
Hi! i'm using automake to build library what woking with Oracle and uses another library libclntsh.so from $ORACLE_HOME/lib here's some rules from Makefile.am : lib_LTLIBRARIES = libocicpp.la INCLUDES= @ORACLE_INCLUDES@ -I$ORACLE_HOME/plsql/public and so on libocicpp_la_LDFLAGS = -L@ORACLE_LIBD

Usability of unstable autoconf/automake?

2000-08-27 Thread W. Reilly Cooley, Esq.
I'm running into various dependecies which are causing me much grief. I updated several GNU packages in my source tree to the versions on alpha, because I couldn't get them to build on the base system I'm working on (glibc 2.1, Linux 2.2, etc). In some cases, I've wanted or needed to re-run autom

Re: Automake Bug?

2000-08-27 Thread W. Reilly Cooley, Esq.
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 02:43:41PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Aug 27, 2000, "W. Reilly Cooley, Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was using 3.77, so I updated. Still doesn't work. DESTDIR gets passed > > down to the Makefile in intl and several other subdirs, but not to src > > an

Re: Automake Bug?

2000-08-27 Thread W. Reilly Cooley, Esq.
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 04:50:32AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > AFAIK, POSIX-compliant implementations of `make' should pass down to > sub-makes any variables set in the command-line of the top-level make. > GNU make, for example, does this, so DESTDIR works as expected. That's kinda what I

Re: Automake Bug?

2000-08-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Aug 27, 2000, "W. Reilly Cooley, Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was using 3.77, so I updated. Still doesn't work. DESTDIR gets passed > down to the Makefile in intl and several other subdirs, but not to src > and doc. It seems to be there for me. Why do you say it doesn't work? >

Re: Automake Bug?

2000-08-27 Thread Simon Richter
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, W. Reilly Cooley, Esq. wrote: > Now, maybe I'm misunderstanding Make's macro-passing, but in order for > the DESTDIR passed to the make in the first place, doesn't the @$(MAKE) > line need something like 'DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR)' ? Would this be the > correct way to fix this? No

Re: Automake Bug?

2000-08-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Aug 27, 2000, "W. Reilly Cooley, Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, maybe I'm misunderstanding Make's macro-passing, but in order for > the DESTDIR passed to the make in the first place, doesn't the @$(MAKE) > line need something like 'DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR)' ? Would this be the > correct wa

Automake Bug?

2000-08-27 Thread W. Reilly Cooley, Esq.
It seems that automake creates makefiles which call themselves with different targets for the install target, which subsequently causes it to loose DESTDIR support. I'm looking at the Makefiles from GNU grep right now. Here's the offending section: install-am: all-am @$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEF