Thanks, Michael! Sorry for the delay in responding. I headed off for a speaking engagement. I'll get your patch worked in. Much appreciated, and thankful that you worked through this.
Thx! -g On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Michael Schultz < michael.schu...@microfocus.com> wrote: > Greg, > > > > Ask and yea shall receive. There are the patches that I had to make to the > SConstruct serf directory. I don’t know how portable these patches are. I > was pretty much going for whatever it took to get the job done. The > RPATHPREFIX was interesting because, when the product was initially built, > the RPATHPREFIX was correct, but when I ran the install portion, it looked > like it was trying to use something for gcc. However, the compiler that I > was trying to use was the native C compiler. > > > > The ZLIB changes were necessary because I didn’t install the zlib > libraries in the standard directory. (Same for expat.) > > > > Mike S > > > > *From:* Greg Stein [mailto:gst...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, August 25, 2017 1:54 AM > > *To:* Michael Schultz <michael.schu...@microfocus.com> > *Cc:* dev@serf.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Please consider dropping scons > > > > Hope you have found it. We'll take patches for both serf and Subversion. > Pretty much, all the developers here have commit rights on svn, too :-) > > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Michael Schultz < > michael.schu...@microfocus.com> wrote: > > Nope, apologies, there is a serf-1 in the include directory. It’s > something else. > > > > Mike S > > > > *From:* Michael Schultz > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 23, 2017 10:31 AM > *To:* 'Greg Stein' <gst...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* 'dev@serf.apache.org' <dev@serf.apache.org> > *Subject:* RE: Please consider dropping scons > > > > << So, another problem to solve.>> > > > > Oops, it was not a problem with expat, it is a problem with –with-serf. > Seems like it is expecting there to be a serf-2 or serf-1 directory within > the include directory. > > > > Mike S > > > > *From:* Michael Schultz > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 23, 2017 10:12 AM > *To:* 'Greg Stein' <gst...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* dev@serf.apache.org > *Subject:* RE: Please consider dropping scons > > > > Yes, I patched the SConstruct for all these problems. I also ran into a > problem where, even though I had successfully build serf, when I tried the > install of serf, I got an error with a command line option on the cc > command. The option looked something like: > > > > -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/apr > > > > Which the native HP-UX command did not like at all. (Unfortunately, HP-UX > wants to place the complete pathname in its shared libraries, so one can’t > build them and then copy them to their installation. Thus, libtool, and I > guess SCons, rebuilds the libraries with a new destination directory. I > think it’s a security thing, but I digress.) To fix this, in the > Environment, I just placed RPATHPREFIX=’-L’. I was not able to figure out > why the install worked differently from the build. > > > > It is hard for me to say that configure is a superior solution though. I > just ran the build on Subversion and configure is totally messing up one of > the the –with parameters. So, another problem to solve. > > > > Mike S > > > > *From:* Greg Stein [mailto:gst...@gmail.com <gst...@gmail.com>] > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2017 7:50 PM > *To:* Michael Schultz <michael.schu...@microfocus.com> > *Cc:* dev@serf.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Please consider dropping scons > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Michael Schultz < > michael.schu...@microfocus.com> wrote: > > I must admit I had a "I'm not going to let this defeat me" moment this > morning and learned enough about SCons to fix the SConstruct script. The > first problem: There was no PATH at all in the environment, so no wonder it > couldn't find the C compiler. > > > > Wow. That is really weird. I'm assuming you got this solved? Patched > SConstruct, or something else? > > > > Second problem: I built libz and installed it in a local directory, and > the UNIX bversion of the SERF SConstruct didn't set ZLIB's include and lib > into CPPPATH and LIBPATH. > > > > Looks like SConstruct has a ZLIB variable available for Windows builds, > but it assumes the system include and lib directories otherwise. Seems we > should obey ZLIB (and OPENSSL, etc) if they are specified on any platform. > > > > Third problem: expat was included as a library, which I again only > installed locally, but EXPAT/lib wasn't included in LIBPATH. (In fact, > there was no way to specify the directory for EXPAT.) > > > > Yeah... Expat is a dependency of apr-util, so serf isn't concerned with > it. I'm going to guess there is a problem with apu-1-config producing some > incorrect results. Maybe an RPATH issue somewhere? (I'm not familiar enough > with HP-UX to know if that concept is supported) > > > > Cheers, > > -g > > > > >
