I'm new to autom4te, and I'm trying to use autoconf/automake to build and link a C++ program on multiple architectures. Complicating the linking is the fact that the project requires boost (filesystem, system, program_options). I'm using boost.m4 (from http://github.com/tsuna/boost.m4/tree/), and it seems to locate all the libraries and...
I am using GNU autotools to build cuda project. CUDA files are regular C++ files as far as preprocessor is concerned, however they use .cu extension and must use nvcc compiler which is g++ based NVIDIA compiler. This breaks regular dependency tracking, .deps directories are not populated. This means that if .cu file includes another f...
hi Is it possible to document configure.ac such that doxygen can pick up embedded comments and produce documentation for options, variables, etc. in generated manuals? Thanks ...
I'm trying to build a C library with a non-native architecture. I'm running OSX 10.6 (which is x86_64) but I need the library compiled for i386. Normally, you can just add the compiler flag: -arch i386. But I'm using Autoconf and it ignores this in the configure file and it also ignores it if I try running: ./configure CC="gcc -arch i386...
The following code from my configuration.ac file does not work (note the nested square brackets with [default=no]): AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug, [ --enable-debug build with debugging support [default=no].], [DEBUG="$enableval"], [DEBUG="no"] ) How can I escape those brackets? ...
hello I would like to be able to merge two files into one during configure run. I already do textural replacement using AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR[file.hpp] macro on some files. is there some directive to include files from file.hpp.in, some sort of @include (another.hpp) @ or something like that? Thanks ...
I have a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/Php) application that I should release soon. Even if I've never used it, I'm thinking about using autotools for it, to make the configuration and installation process easier (for the customer and for me, in the future). Have you ever done (or thought) such a thing? Are there any drawbacks? Does it make...
I am using autoconf to detect boost libraries, with the support of the autoconf-archive macros and they work fine with system-wide boost libraries, but fail if I manually compile boost in my home directory: sb@stephane:~/devel/spectra2$ ./configure --with-boost=/home/sb/local/ checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c...
I'm not talking about making portable code. This is more a question of distribution. I have a medium-sized project. It has several dependencies on common libraries (eg openssl, zlib, etc). It compiles fine on my machine and now it's time to give it to the world. Essentially build engineering at its finest. I want to make installers...
When using autotools (with a config.h file) for both a library, and a software built on that library, the compiler complains about a redefinition of some macros (PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_TARNAME and so on). How can I prevent this? The config.h file is needed in the library to propagate it's setting to the software that use it. Right now ...
I want to avoid compiling php with fileinfo, ereg, and parch. What is the difference between --disable and --without with configure? ...
What is EXTRA_SCRIPTS variable for in Makefile.am? Where is it documented? ...
I'm searching an autoconf macro to use in my configure.ac that checks for Boost MPI. It's not hard to find a couple of them on the Internet but none of the one I tried worked as expected. What ax_boost_mpi.m4 do you use? EDIT: I'll explain my requirement better. I need the macro to tell me if Boost MPI is available or not (defining HA...
I am using autoconf. Right now I have an intermediate .cpp file that is generated. I want to have the .cpp file deleted when I do a "make clean". I tried specifying the file in a CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES variable, but that only takes effect when I do a make distlclean. Is there a variable to set to delete the file when I do a make clean? If n...
Hello, How to tell to a 'configure' file to compile with a specified version of g++ ? Thanks. ...
I am trying to compile code that works on os x and linux using cygwin. However, I am finding that the argument order to gcc gives unanticipated results. For example, the following fails: gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv -fgnu89-inline -fno-leading-underscore -o nb-learn.exe n...
Hello I'm trying to start with autoconf / automake for a new project. To get started, I'm reading "Using GNU Autotools" and trying to build the Hello-World-Tutorial. The required files from page 96 (real Page=105 because it's a LaTeX-Presentation) configure.ac, Makefile.am and src/Makefile.am look exactly as stated in the document. Af...
Hello! I have written a small command line tool that includes some GPL code. Everything runs smothly. Using os 10.6. The external code used has a config.h header file, made by calling autoconf. I'd like to deploy the tool to different OS versions. Thus config.h could look like // config.h #if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED == MAC_OS_X_V...
AC_CHECK_LIB accepts as an argument the base name of the shared library that you want to check for. So for a library named "libxyz.so" you would specify the base name of the library "xyz" as an argument to AC_CHECK_LIB. If I have a library named xyz.so (Note: Not libxyz.so), how do I check for the availability/usability of this library w...
I couldn't find any documentation on this. What exactly are these variables with 'at' symbols found in Makefiles? Example: temp = @temp@ srcdir = @srcdir@ ...