Hi: I recently joined the Bodhi team to help build ARM (armhf) packages for Bodhi, since I have Bodhi installed on a Samsung (ARM) Chromebook. I chose Bodhi because it was lightweight and because I tried E in crouton (before ditching ChromeOS) and I really liked it.
A few weeks ago I got Jeff Hoogland's build scripts and started building EFL, enlightenment, and the modules included with Bodhi. That went fine. Then we decided to move from debian wheezy to debian Jessie. (In case you are not aware, while Bodhi uses Ubuntu for x86 and x86_64, it uses straight Debian for armhf). When I moved to jessie, using exactly the same source (EFL 1.7.9 and enlightenment 0.17.5) I started running into issues. One thing that happened is that it started putting stuff under /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf instead of just /usr/lib. This caused a problem with enlightenment install because the postinst script expected things under /usr/lib. I fixed the script to handle this but that really isn't an Enlightenment issue per se, but a debian packaging issue with Bodhi. However, when I tried to build the modules Bodhi includes like comp-scale, cpu, deskshow, diskio, etc. they would no longer build. I mentioned the error I was seeing yesterday on the freenode chat (as crsboca). The problem I was seeing was: *./configure: line 13639: syntax error near unexpected token `E,'** **./configure: line 13639: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(E, enlightenment)' * Sachiel on the chat correctly pointed out that the problem was some type of configuration error. After a lot of digging (I was not that familiar with how autogen worked, I just used it) I determined that the *PKG_CHECK_MODULES* macro was not being included and expanded. This is in *pkg.m4*. To make a long story short, by adding *pkg.m4* (found in */usr/share/aclocal* on my machine) to the *m4* directory under the source I was able to resolve the issues for all but 2 of the modules I was trying to build. I don't know what changed when I moved to jessie. My speculation is that it previously picked the macros up automatically (perhaps from /usr/share/aclocal) if not found in the included m4 directory, but this no longer happened. But I really don't know. The other two module issues I am describing below: /*deskshow*/* * Unlike the others, this wasn't including the autoconf m4 macros at all and m4 was empty. So I had to add: *ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4* to the top of *Makefile.am*. Additionally, I had to add the following two lines to *configure.ac*: *AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(m4)** **LT_INIT* Additionally, I put the following macro files in m4: *libtool.m4** **lt~obsolete.m4** **ltoptions.m4** **ltsugar.m4** **ltversion.m4** **pkg.m4* The source for many of the other modules include an m4 directory with lots of macros, so it would be OK to do that as well for this one as well, as long as these are included (at least based on the configure.ac changes I made). /*diskio*//* */ For this, I needed to add the same 2 lines to *configure.ac*: *AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(m4)** **LT_INIT* This, along with adding *pkg.m4* to the *m4* directory was sufficient for this to build again. I would like having these changes considered for inclusion, assuming there isn't reason to believe that there is some expectation that my system got borked by upgrading to jessie and also that these changes aren't likely to cause problems for others using other environments to build. Of course if someone knows some better ideas to try, I am willing to try those as well. Or if it is OK to submit patches for these changes, please let me know and I am willing to do that as well. Although I could of course keep the changes for myself, assuming the problem isn't unique to my machine, I wouldn't want someone else to encounter and have to solve the same problems. Sorry for such a long note. Also, if the formatting causes problems, please let me know and I will use plain text in the future. Thanks in advance. -- Chris Seekamp cseek...@acm.org (using icedove on bodhi linux) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
