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'm doing a pretty straight-forward conversion of an existing library (libtcod) to Autotools (for OS X happiness). Unfortunately, when I switch my Makefile.am's lib_LIBRARIES rule to lib_LTLIBRARIES, the build goes from successful to un. Excerpt from the output below: Making all in . make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. Making al...
To begin with, I would normally opt to use a pre-compiled binary of PHP, but am required to build from source for a specific business need. (I'm not the type that compiles open-source apps just for kicks.) I'm building on OS X 10.6 and am running into the following error when I try to make PHP 5.2.10 as an Apache module (--with-apxs2): ...
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've got c++ code that needs a sed done to it prior to compilation. How do I place this into Makefile.am? I tried the typical makefile setup and the target appears to not exist: gentest.cc: $(SED) -i "s|FIND|REPLACE|" gentest.cc If you are interested as to why I want to do this, it's because I wrote my program (slid...
I'm lately feeling the need to learn a build tool. I'm looking through StackOverflow for recommendations and Gnu Make gets barely mentioned. Instead I see Ant, Maven, CMake, Scon and many others. However, when I look at the little "rogue sources" (as in not-in-the-repo) that I sometimes have to compile, they all require the make && make ...
I am working on a c++ library. Ultimately, I would like to make it publicly available for multiple platforms (linux/windows at least), along with some examples and python bindings. Work is progressing nicely, but at the moment the project is quite messy, built solely in and for VC++ and not multi platform at all. Therefore, I feel a cle...
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 ...
Edit: Revising My Question When building an external PHP module in C, how do I link shared objects? ...
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...
I have a small ANSI C application which compiles cleanly under different tested compilers and platforms. It doesn't use any preprocessor switches or external dependencies and the makefile is simply something like: myapp: *.c gcc *.c -Wall -o myapp If I want to distribute this project in source form as portable as possible, should ...
How do you set the order of libraries in automake? In my am file I have something like: myprog_DEPENDENCIES = adhoc-target myprog_SOURCES = myprog.c myprog_LDADD = libmine.la myprog_LFLAGS = -static -L/home/user/lib -ladhoc Now, when I compile I get this compile line similar too: gcc -static myprog-myprog.o -o myprog -L/home/user/li...
Background I recently came across the fuppes UPnP media server and it seemed great. I installed it on my home server and started using it to stream video to my XBox. It worked really really well and I was happy with it. Then I upgraded my servers distribution and fuppes stopped working; I now know that it's because various libraries hav...
How do I stop automake from adding -I. to my compile line? It seems automake or libtool objects always have a compile command similar to: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I./proj/otherdir -o myprog.o myprog.c The problem is that I have two header files with the same name.... ./proj/otherdir/Header.h ./proj/thisdir/Header.h Each header has...
I need to include the GLib headers for a project that is built with an autoconf-based system for portability. How can I safely import the GLib headers in a portable manner? I know about pkg-config, but that is not entirely portable (since some systems don't have it and I would prefer to only rely on autoconf for configuration). ...
I'd like to create a Makefile.am file which generates one header file mentioned in a xxx.c file. Let's say that xxx.c contains: #include <version.h> ... and that I have a rule to create it at the end of Makefile.am: version.h: echo '#define VERSION "'`hg id`'"' > version.h.tmp cmp version.h.tmp version.h || mv version....
I'd like to include many files in one Makefile.am file in the xxx_SOURCES = ... part. Is there any way to use a typical shell expansions there? What I'm looking for is a working equivalent for: xxx_SOURCES = xxx.c $(top_builddir)/src/{aaa,bbb,ccc}.c ...
I'm writing my own unit testing library (using autoconf, automake, and libtool) to better fit my needs (I don't need a super large amount of features, just a test runner and assertions). I have gotten to the point where it seems to be usable. Of course, it uses a config.h to figure out what headers to include. The problem is that I am ...