Hello Daniel,
Daniel Stenberg <dan...@haxx.se> writes:
> 1. I didn't have 'autopoint' installed so ./bootstrap failed with an unhelpful
> error. It should rather check for autopoint to be present and tell me that
> I need it.
I have added it to the build prerequisites. It should fail with a more
friendly error now.
> 2. configure.ac:51: option `dist-lzma' not recognized
> This seems to rely on a rather recent automake version as I have automake
> 1.9.6 here and get that error. I just removed 'dist-lzma' from the
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE() macro in configure.ac and things could continue.
> (automake 1.10 has been broken on Solaris for so long that I've just never
> managed to upgrade to that without getting hit in the face and downgraded
> again so I will remain using 1.9.x for the forseeable future.)
I have removed it. It is not required anymore, new versions of automake
support dist-xz, that is meant to replace .lzma. I will add dist-xz to
the automake options in the near future.
Does automake 1.11 work for you under Solaris?
> 3. These fixed, I now got a configure script that I ran. Then I invoke 'make'
> (inside the source dir tree) and then my build ends with an error like
> this:
>
> if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC=\"/usr/local/etc/wgetrc\"
> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -I. -I. -I. -I../lib -I../lib
> -O2 -Wall -MT exits.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/exits.Tpo" -c -o exits.o
> exits.c; \
> then mv -f ".deps/exits.Tpo" ".deps/exits.Po"; else rm -f
> ".deps/exits.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> if test -n ""; then cp "./build_info.c.in" .; fi
> /usr/bin/perl "../build-aux/build_info.pl" \
> "/build_info.c"
> Cannot open /build_info.c.in: No such file or directory at
> ../build-aux/build_info.pl line 39.
> make[3]: *** [build_info.c] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/src/wget/src'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/src/wget/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/src/wget'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> This problem is because the src/Makefile.am uses a 'abs_builddir' variable
> that in my case is not set (blank). I could fix this by doing this:
>
> === modified file 'src/Makefile.am'
> --- src/Makefile.am 2010-05-27 11:59:46 +0000
> +++ src/Makefile.am 2010-06-10 07:03:35 +0000
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
> build_info.c: $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/build_info.c.in
> if test -n "$(VPATH)"; then cp "$(srcdir)/build_info.c.in" .; fi
> $(PERL) "$(top_srcdir)/build-aux/build_info.pl" \
> - "$(abs_builddir)/build_info.c"
> + "$(top_builddir)/src/build_info.c"
> if test -n "$(VPATH)"; then rm -f build_info.c.in; fi
>
> ESCAPEQUOTE = sed -e 's/[\\"]/\\&/g' -e 's/\\"/"/' -e 's/\\";$$/";/'
Applied.
> 4. Now if I run ./wrc/wget -V it says:
>
> Currently maintained by Micah Cowan <mi...@cowan.name>.
>
> ... which I believe isn't true and I believe you want a patch similar to
> this:
>
> === modified file 'src/main.c'
> --- src/main.c 2010-05-31 07:45:03 +0000
> +++ src/main.c 2010-06-10 07:06:32 +0000
> @@ -853,7 +853,7 @@
> names such as this one. See en_US.po for reference. */
> fputs (_("\nOriginally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hnik...@xemacs.org>.\n"),
> stdout);
> - fputs (_("Currently maintained by Micah Cowan <mi...@cowan.name>.\n"),
> + fputs (_("Currently maintained by Giuseppe Scrivano
> <gscriv...@gnu.org>.\n"),
> stdout);
> fputs (_("Please send bug reports and questions to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.\n"),
> stdout);
I would rather drop this line at all.
Thanks!
Giuseppe
