On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Thomas Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently faced with a (non-standard) bug report against octgrp in > Debian[1]. It fails to build on the sh4 architecture. This boils down to > an old autoconf used to build the configure script and should be fixed > from autoconf 2.63 onwards. > > However, octgrp ships it's own configure script in the archive. Is it > okay if I update it (I will need to change configure.in as well): > > $ autoreconf > configure.in:45: error: AC_SUBST: `FPICFLAG CPICFLAG' is not a valid > shell variable name > configure.in:45: the top level > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 > aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1 > autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 > > Or should just the configure.in stay in the archive? >
I believe configure must be present in the tarball that is used for installation; otherwise, Octave will fail to install because it doesn't run autoconf. I've put it into SVN as well because then it's easier to install straight from SVN. -- RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD computing expert & GNU Octave developer Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU) Prague, Czech Republic url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
