Peter wrote: >> The last time I tried to build ggi-project failed with compilation >> errors. That probably means that I was able to configure it >> or parts of >> it.
> I have spent some time on getting libggi working. I believe it does work > now, you have to use the cvs version though as the released versions do > not have all the patches that has been commited lately. > The problem is not that I can't get it to work. It works *most* of the > time. *Sometimes* there's this mysterious failure though. I'm tired of > adding spaces to the configure command and I would also like > "./config.status --recheck" to work reliably. > What does an extra space between configure arguments really change? This > is friggin' strange. >> I always update the autogenerated part when a package is going to >> build shared libraries, try: autoreconf --install --force --verbose in >> the source directory. Well, you do this anyway when building >> from CVS? > No, there is an autogen.sh script included though. It basically boils > down to this: > aclocal > autoheader > automake --add-missing > autoconf > Anyway, I tried: > WANT_LIBTOOL_VER=1.5.6 WANT_AUTOMAKE_VER=1.8.5 WANT_AUTOCONF_VER=2.59 > autoreconf --install --force --verbose > and I can still reproduce the bug. I can configure with the "correct" > number of extra spaces though, but it later bugs out during make so that > is a definite step backwards. >> Which version of configure, automake, libtool are you using? > autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.8.5 and an old libtool (libtool is included > in libgii, I've had to throw quite a few patches at it to make it work > with cygwin/mingw. I reported a dlltool/dllwrap problem to this list > earlier related to this and got the advise to use "gcc -shared"). autoreconf -force -install also installs the new libtool, very good idea to do it, since patching the included libtool is error prone. I'll try to build the latest release, where can I find a summary about all the recent patches / fixes? Gerrit -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/