Won't have time for a few days. Trying to get through mergey mergey time.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > This looks great! Thank you, Ben! > > If someone (Paul?) wants to apply this to master, and the relevant release > branches, along with an entry in CHANGES, well then, awesome. If not, I > will see to it once the current release is off my plate. > > > On 13 March 2013 00:11, Ben Reser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Friend of mine was trying to build couchdb today and ran into a problem. >> >> [[[ >> checking jsapi.h usability... no >> checking jsapi.h presence... no >> checking for jsapi.h... no >> checking js/jsapi.h usability... no >> checking js/jsapi.h presence... no >> checking for js/jsapi.h... no >> configure.jm: error: Could not find the jsapi header. >> >> Are the Mozilla SpiderMonkey headers installed? >> ]]] >> >> But he clearly had Mozilla Spidermonkey installed: >> [[[ >> # locate jsapi.h >> /usr/include/jsapi.h >> /usr/include/js/jsapi.h >> /usr/include/xulrunner-sdk-1.9.2/jsapi.h >> ]]] >> >> He was stumped and asked me to take a look. I looked at the >> config.log and found: >> [[[ >> configure.jm:16700: checking jsapi.h usability >> configure.jm:16717: g++ -c -DXP_UNIX >> -I/usr/include/xulrunner-sdk-1.9.2 >> -I/usr/include/xulrunner-sdk-1.9.2/js >> -I/usr/include/xulrunner-sdk-1.9.2/mozjs -I/opt/local/include >> -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include conftest.cpp >&5 >> ./configure.jm: line 16718: g++: command not found >> ]]] >> >> You're using AC_PROG_CXX in your configure.ac to find a C++ compiler. >> Unfortunately due to a bug (or misfeature) of autoconf if AC_PROG_CXX >> follows AC_PROG_CC then it won't fail if no C++ compiler is found. >> See: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2010-05/msg00001.html >> >> Fortunately, it's relatively easy to work around this. You can simply >> test that the ac_ct_CXX shell variable is set after running >> AC_PROG_CXX. I've attached a patch that does so. >> >> Running configure on a system without a C++ compiler now results in >> the following: >> [[[ >> checking for g++... no >> checking for c++... no >> checking for gpp... no >> checking for aCC... no >> checking for CC... no >> checking for cxx... no >> checking for cc++... no >> checking for cl.exe... no >> checking for FCC... no >> checking for KCC... no >> checking for RCC... no >> checking for xlC_r... no >> checking for xlC... no >> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no >> checking whether g++ accepts -g... no >> checking dependency style of g++... none >> checking that we found a C++ compiler... no >> configure: error: A C++ compiler is required. >> ]]] >> >> I'm not subscribed to your dev list so if you'd like to respond to me >> please CC me. Also my ASF username is breser an ICLA is already on >> file for me. >> > > > > -- > NS
