I'm trying to set up autoconf for my project. I have everything working "properly" except that the ac_set_<...> functions are not being found in ./configure. They work fine in configure.status if I run it directly. Specifically, I am having trouble with as_fn_set_status and as_fn_exit. If I manually edit the config file and move the ...
After running make distcheck I get the message that I have successfully built the package and is ready for distribution. If I untar the tar.gz with tar -zxvf hello-0.2.tar.gz it successfully extracts all of its contents. However, when I try to extract them in different machines I get: tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skip...
The Autoconfig manual states that comment lines can start with either dnl or #. Is there any difference between them, any reason to use one rather than the other in any circumstance? Or is it purely a matter of taste? ...
I am working on a cross-platform project which uses a large number of third party libraries (currently 22 and counting, and I expect this number to increase significantly). My project is CMake-based, and keeps the ThirdParty/ directory organized like so: ThirdParty/$libname/include/ ThirdParty/$libname/lib/$platform/$buildtype/ My CMak...
There are struct definitions in the .h file that my library creates after I build it.. but I cannot find these in the corresponding .h.in. Can somebody tell me how all this works and where it gets the extra info from? To be specific: I am building pth, the userspace threading library. It has pth_p.h.in, which doesn't contain the struct...
Hi, I have a configure script where I need to pass an option that contains a comma. Now if it weren't for the comma I could put some "s around to make configure recognize the string as a whole: ./configure --with-arpack="-Wl,-rpath,/my/path -L/my/path -larpack" But the commas are interpreted as option delimiters, so the script only ...
In this example: configure.ac: ... AC_CONFIG_FILES([script1]) AC_OUTPUT script1.in: #!/bin/bash ... config=@datadir@/blah This @datadir@ is expanded to ${prefix}/share, is there any way to expand it to /usr/local/share? ...
I'm using Automake to maintain the package, there are some shell scripts which don't need to compile, so I install them using _SCRIPT primary: Makefile.am: bin_SCRIPTS = script1.sh But the tarball generated with make dist doesn't contain this script1.sh file. Is there something I missed in the Makefile.am? ...
configure scripts always include something like the following in the help message: ... By default, `make install' will install all the files in `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/lib' etc. You can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' using `--prefix', for instance `--prefix=$HOME'. For better control, use the options bel...
I would like the executables for a project I am working on to have the latest mercurial changeset recorded so that when a user complains about buggy behavior, I can track which version they are using. Some of my executables are Python and others are compiled C. Is there a way to automate this, or can you point me to projects that exhibit...
I have a set of cpp files that I want to compile directly into a binary and also to compile into a shared library. I have bin_PROGRAMS=mybin lib_LTLIBRARIES=libmylib.la COMMON_SOURCES=f1.cpp f2.cpp f3.cpp mybin_SOURCES=main.cpp $(COMMON_SOURCES) libmylib_la_SOURCES=$(COMMON_SOURCES) When I run this the cpp files are compiled twice...
A long time ago,when I wrote my .emacs setup[1], I used a shell script to compile and join the whole thing. The thing is now very old and "crusty", so I am now rewriting it to replace things such as: (defmacro make-new-comment( mode face strcom color1 color2) (list 'progn `(make-face ',face) `(if (not (assoc ,s...
I want to build XZ Utils with MSVC++, but xz utils uses a Gnu Autoconf Script. Is there a way to import a whole autoconfed project into MSVC++, then build it? If not, is there a way to run the Gnu Autoconf script for MSVC++, then after that, just take all the source files, as well as config.h, then build it? ...
In my Makefile.am, I have SUBDIRS = libltdl . This is because I want to be able to use the version of libltdl included with my package (i.e. ./configure --with-included-ltdl). However, I occasionally run into the problem where make invokes itself recursively forever. Unfortunately I'm not sure exactly what conditions cause this to occ...
I have seen both in different things I have configured. What I the difference? Is it notable to use only one? Or does it not matter which one to use? ...
I am using GNU autotools for my project. The configure.ac script has the following snippet. AC_ARG_WITH(chkhere, AC_HELP_STRING([--without-chkhere], [do not compile]), [ac_cv_chkhere=$withval], [ac_cv_chkhere=yes]) # Check if chkhere is available if test "x$ac_cv_chkhere" = "xyes" then AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CHECKED) echo "chkhere: enabled...
My configure.in file has LT_VERSION="1.1". I am using the latest version of autoconf and libtool. While using autoconf or autoreconf, I am getting the following error message: configure.ac:41: error: possibly undefined macro: LT_VERSION If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentat...
How can I add extra flag variables (like CPPFLAGS) that will apply to all makefiles? Currently, we're using CPPFLAGS, but that is supposed to be reserved as a user variable and I would like to reserve it. I'd prefer not to use AM_CPPFLAGS because I would like to reserve that for specific Makefile.amS. What I want is something like GLO...
I have a C++ code that can be compiled with MPI support depending on a certain preprocessor flag; missing the appropriate flag, the sources compile to a non-parallel version. I would like to setup the Makefile.am so that it compiles both the MPI-parallel and the sequential version, if an option to ./configure is given. Here's the catch...
I have autoconf 2.59 on CentOS 5.5 and need to upgrade to autoconf 2.6. What is the best approach for this? I tried yum update autoconf but theres no luck ...