Jeremy Erwin wrote: > > I am in the process of testing a fink port of open dx (version 4.2.0) My > port uses automake, so as to keep the patch smaller and easier to debug. > What packages will insure that a would be compiler can run aclocal, > automake, autoconf and autoheader?
I'll give a long answer, because I feel that opendx is an important package, and because I (like some otheers, I guess) have spent some frustrating time trying to compile this thing. Sometimes it compiled, but did not work, sometimes it did not compile. But this was before the release of version 4.2.0. I have now tried your dx-4.2.0-1 package (found somewhere on the opendx mailing lists). It does not start compiling, because it depends on "autoconf automake", and automake (*) in unstable, which is automake-1.6, depends on autoconf25 which conflicts with autoconf. With autoconf replaced by autoconf25 in the depends list, it started compiling but broke down after a while with an error that I have been getting sometimes (and sometimes not) when I earlier tried to compile opendx myself: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include -Dmacos -I/sw/include/libxml2 -I/sw/include/freetype2 -D_REENTRANT -I/sw/include -I/sw/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -I/sw/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -Wall -no-cpp-precomp -I/usr/X11R6/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c `test -f 'buffer.c' || echo './'`buffer.c buffer.c:1: dxconfig . h : No such file or directory buffer.c:2: string . h : No such file or directory buffer.c:3: dx / dx . h : No such file or directory buffer.c:4: X11 / X . h : No such file or directory Note the spurious spaces. The file buffer.c had been made before by using "cc -E" as a preprocessor, which did not work well: cc -E __buffer.c | tr -s "\044" "\012" | sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/INCLUDE2/#include/' -e 's/^pragma/#pragma/' > buffer.c __buffer.c:10: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `>' __buffer.c:22: undefined type, found `Error' __buffer.c:24: undefined type, found `RGBColor' __buffer.c:118: undefined type, found `RGBColor' __buffer.c:157: undefined type, found `Error' __buffer.c:169: undefined type, found `Error' [some 800 similar errors skipped] And it did introduce a space after every symbol. I don't know whether this has to do with automake or autoconf, but there is a connection, see below. (*) Right now, fink offers a selection of four versions of automake under two (three?) different names, automake and automake15 (and automake-1.4). They sometimes can coexist, sometimes not, and they require different versions of autoconf. I'll summarize some of the situation here, but it is so confusing that I probably won't get it right. automake-1.4-p5-2: Needed for building some packages. Only exists in stable, not in unstable, although this violates fink policy. Has been removed and reintroduced several times. I tend to think ATM that this is the one that makes opendx build (?). In any case, if I have this installed, the above preprocessing of buffer.c is not done by "cc -E", which does not work, but by "cc -E -traditional-cpp", which does. automake-1.5-1: Only in stable. Depends on nothing; contains aclocal executable. automake15-1.5-2: Only in unstable. Depends on nothing; contains no aclocal executable (it is called aclocal-1.5 instead). Opendx wants an aclocal executable, so it does not start to build with this automake15. automake-1.6.1-1: Only in unstable. Depends on autoconf25 which conflicts with autoconf (which is at version 2.13-3 right now). Contains an aclocal executable. To answer your question: IMHO, you would have to do fink remove automake fink install automake-1.4-p5-2 fink install autoconf Some other combinations might work, too, but I haven't seen anything obvious. In the BuildDepends line, you would need "autoconf automake-1.4-p5-2". I think "automake (<< 1.5)" does not work, because fink sometimes regards "automake-1.4" as name and "p5" as version or something. -- Martin _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
