Hey, In my company I'm currently working on creating a Debian deb package out of a 3rd party library. The library is built using Autotools. I have never worked with Autotools before and I'm having some hard time. Library sources contain configure.in and Makefile.am files and m4/ directory. I am able to build the library using this seque...
I know how to build a project or how to create a library using autoconf. What I want to achive is to generate a static library and use this library to build a project in a single configure/make/make install run. I want some source files to be put into library and the rest to be compiled using this library. How do I modify makefile.am ...
UPDATE: First problem solved, second one described at the bottom of this post. UPDATE2: Second problem solved as well. I'm trying to learn about setting up GNU build tools (autoconf/automake) for a very simple GTK+2 C application. I've followed this tutorial and this one that deals with sub directories, but I'm running into a problem ...
I currently have 10 tests in my autotoolset project. Any time I make a change to one of my src/ files and recompile, each test is rebuilt and linked. This is starting to have a considerable impact on my development time. What is the best way to conditionally build binary programs, tests or otherwise, with GNU autotoolset? For instance, ...
In one project, I have two noinst_PROGRAM's defined. One of them works just fine, but the other is giving me the following message: /home/altern8/workspaces/4355/libgdata/test/.libs/lt-gdatacalendar: symbol lookup error: /home/altern8/workspaces/4355/libgdata/test/.libs/lt-gdatacalendar: undefined symbol: _ZN5gdata7service7Se...
I have a quite complex (C++) project using autoconf / automake, which includes some "generated" files (foo.yy -> foo.cc). Actual builds are done using a "control script" (Gentoo .ebuild for those familiar with the concept), on various platforms. Now, one of the target platforms does not properly support the foo.yy -> foo.cc step, and ha...
I'm creating a library libgdata that has some tests and non-installed programs. I am running into the problem that once I've installed the library once, the programs seem to be linking to the installed version and not the local version in ../src/libgdata.la any longer. What could cause this? Am I doing something horribly wrong? Here is...
I want my code to compile with the Intel compiler(s) or with gcc/g++ depending on a configure argument. Is this possible? What do I need to put in my configure.ac and Makefile.am files to make this happen? ...
I have code that I want to compile on all unix systems, but if -m64 i available and it works, I want the configure script to use it. How do I get autoconf to check to see if -m64 works and, if so, use it? ...
I'm trying to build ZooKeeper on a RedHat Linux box. (Exactly what ZooKeeper is is probably not important :-) When I follow the package instructions, I get: $ autoreconf -if aclocal:configure.ac:33: warning: macro `AM_PATH_CPPUNIT' not found in library aclocal:configure.ac:33: warning: macro `AM_PATH_CPPUNIT' not found in library conf...
I've copied libtool into my program's source tree to distribute it with the program. But when I run 'make distclean' libtool is deleted with the rest of the rest of the generated files. How do I stop that from happening? I tried putting EXTRA_DIST = libtool in Makefile.am but that doesn't work. Here is basically what my configure.ac ...
hi all i created a configure.ac file like this: AC_INIT() set the purpose of this is to print every available environment variable the configure script creates using 'set' so i do: user@host:~$ autoconf user@host:~$ ./configure which prints a bunch of variables like build= cache_file=/dev/null IFS=' ' LANG=C LANGUAGE=C d...
I'm trying to build a program I've written in C using GNU autotools, but I evidently have it set up wrong because when configure runs, it spits out: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables If I look in config.log, I see: configure:2846: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:2868: gcc conftest.c ...
I'm on a network where I don't have root access, so everything I install is under a prefix ~/bin (actually referenced by its full path). So I have openbox working fine, which is what I'm using to send this from. Imlib2 I do ./configure --prefix=~/bin; make; make install. Then I run from the tint2 source directory IMLIB2_CFLAGS=-i~/bin/i...
I'm trying to write a configure.ac file such that the resulting configure script searches for a library directory containing a given static library e.g. libsomething.a. How can I do this? At the moment I have it check just one location with: AC_CHECK_FILE([/usr/local/lib/libsomething.a],[AC_SUBST(libsomething,"-L/usr/local/lib -lsomethi...
How should I run a prebuilt Makefile from a Makefile.am? I am new to automake/autoconf build system. The package I am implementing autotools for has a couple libraries and test executables for each. Some of the libraries are auto-generated ASN1C code that come with prebuilt makefiles. I am not sure of the best way to say inside of the M...
What is the best way to auto detect library dependencies in a C/C++ project? I have a project where I have all the dependencies on the machine. It builds and runs. Now I want to put together a autotools build system. I am looking for a good way to auto detect all the dependencies needed such as header files used and libraries needed for...
On Solaris, when you compile a program that uses sockets, you need to link it with -lnsl -lsocket. Many such programs were originally written for Linux (where no extra libraries are needed), and therefore do not check for these libraries in their configure scripts, even though that is a rather simple addition. Something like this (unte...
How should AC_CACHE_CHECK be reset? In autoconf I am checking for headers. I've added some logic to try a little harder to find header files in std folders that might not be in the default include path. The way I do this is first attempt to find a header file with the built-in AC_CHECK_HEADER. If header is not found, I modify the CPPFLA...
I see alot in autoconf code about stuff being dnl'ed and not dnl'ed. What is dnl'ed? ...