On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:01:18AM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Been bashing away at getting apr-util to build, but it seems still too
> tightly coupled with apr to be built separately.
>
> There are two problems with the build so far.
>
> The files apr_common.m4, gen-build.py, make_exports.awk, install.sh and
> config.sub from apr are needed by apr-util. apr-util seems to assume
> these files to be in the apr source tree in the ./build directory, which
> isn't available when apr-util is built from RPM.
gen-build.py, apr_common.m4 and config.sub are surely only needed if you
run ./buildconf? That shouldn't be necessary for apr-util.
> The second problem is in ./configure and Makefile.in. The build scripts
> looks for the above files in the source code directory for apr using this:
>
> configure: APR_SOURCE_DIR="`$apr_config --srcdir`"
> Makefile.in: $(AWK) -f @APR_SOURCE_DIR@/build/make_var_export.awk
> $(HEADERS)
I'd forgotten there were so many things which broke... for the Fedora
apr package we patch `apr-config --srcdir` to print ${libdir}/apr.
joe
