On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 09:53:48PM -0400, Timothy G Abbott wrote: > This singuname check does seem pretty horrible. > > (A) making the makefiles do different things on windows/osx > (B) testing whether the system uses ELF > (C) a few old compatability checks > > I'll upload a minimal fix that just sets the SINGUNAME to Unknown-Linux > for Linux versions that Singular doesn't understand for now, since I think > that will fix the build problems.
kfreebsd* and hurd will probably work with that too: http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=singular ie. both use ELF. > I'll also contact upstream about improving the situation to test for ELF > support and these other features directly in future releases. Thanks. > Thanks for the report, > > -Tim Abbott > > On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Riku Voipio wrote: > > >Package: singular > >Version: 3-0-4-3.dfsg-1 > >Severity: important > > > >build fails on many archs with: > > > >checking uname for singular... unknown > >configure: error: Unknown architecture: Check singuname.sh > > > >This is completly broken and against the "test for features, not > >for systems." philosophy of autoconf. Looking at where the "singuname" > >result is used in configure.in, any generic modern linux system should > >be sufficent to fill the requirements... > > > >-- > >"rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups > > > > > > -- "rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
