Hi Bryan! Thanks for bringing this up. I will now try to explain the basics of GNU Autotools (intended mostly for those maintaining autotools-based projects).
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:43:41PM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote: > I am trying to build the latest cpp on f10. Running configure I get the > following error: > > ./configure: line 1870: syntax error near unexpected token `dist-bzip2' > ./configure: line 1870: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dist-bzip2 subdir-objects)' > > I am not an autoconf guy.. can this build on f10? The basic idea of GNU Autotools is that only developers with particular versions of the tools would do all the needed stuff to generate ./configure script along with all Makefile.in (currently what ./bootstrap does). Such sources would be then packaged into tarballs (yes, you can automate it even for nightly snapshots) and then nobody will have problems with their version of GNU auto* because the generated ./configure script is full of _portable_ shell code --> the people who want to compile a package from such tarball should not be required to have autotools installed on their system at all. Yes, there are no such tarballs for qpid at the moment and even the releases (M4) require you to run bootstrap which is really bad example of GNU autotools usage. See the tutorial from the GNU Autotools author for more info: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html Otherwise I am all for change to CMake, but only if there is somebody who really knows how it works (and I am not the one). The change of build system does not make us able to live without reading docs. Best regards Jasan --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:dev-subscr...@qpid.apache.org
