Thanks for clearing that up. I hadn't heart of ANT until just now. (It's filed under dev-java on my distro, and I don't look there very often.)
Perhaps it would be convenient for someone to add this information to the Linux Installation Guide at http://ws.apache.org/axis/cpp/lininstall-guide.html, as all this refers to is a standard ./configure; make; make install procedure (with added env vars) Thanks, Simon On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 05:40, Samisa Abeysinghe wrote: > To add to what John has said, my experience has been that it was quite > hard to get the auto make system portable on different Unix/Linux > flavors. > > Also, as there were so many file additions in 1.5, it was quite hard > to keep changing the make system – as far as I know, make system > cannot pick the source files automatically as Ant does. > > > > We are not against using the automake system. If someone could help > here that would be great. > > > > Thanks, > > Samisa… > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:03 AM > To: Apache AXIS C User List > Cc: axis-c-dev@ws.apache.org > Subject: Re: Axis C++ 1.5 linux build broken > > > > > Hmm, I think we've got to make ourselves clearer. with regard to our > build strategy ! > > We started out having full support for the autobuild make system > however, over time, this has been superceded by the ANT build system. > We took the decision (not very decisively but I think we did !) that > we could not keep supporting two make systems unless there was a > specific reason to do so. We do not have a lot of skills in the > autobuild system and we have a lot of skills in ANT. > > So, to summarise, I don't think we're calling the autobuild system > "supported" and I would suggest you build using ANT. > > Sorry for the inconvenience ! > > > > > > Simon Detheridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 20/04/2005 15:44 > > Please respond to > "Apache AXIS C User List" > > > To > > Apache AXIS C > User List > <axis-c-user@ws.apache.org> > > cc > > > > Subject > > Axis C++ 1.5 > linux build > broken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When running automake with this release, I get: > > samples/server/Makefile.am:1: required directory > samples/server/interoptests does not exist > samples/server/Makefile.am:1: required directory samples/server/simple > does not exist > tests/Makefile.am:1: required directory tests/server does not exist > > Which appears to cause (or at least be related to) the following error > during configure: > > config.status: creating src/xml/tspp/Makefile > config.status: creating samples/Makefile > config.status: error: cannot find input file: samples/Makefile.in > > Building with --enable-samples=no and removing all "samples/" lines > from > configure.ac and removing @SAMPLESBUILD@, @TESTCASESBUILD@, and > deploy_interoptests.sh from the main Makefile.am gets around this > problem, (at least it builds, I'm still testing it) but it's far from > ideal. (I can't test my installation beyond seeing if the server > starts) > > What's up? It seems a bit strange to promote a release from 'alpha' > (which at least configured) to 'final' with these problems... Or am I > doing something *really* wrong? :-/ > > -- > Simon Detheridge > SEN Developer, Widgit Software > > -- Simon Detheridge SEN Developer, Widgit Software
