On Thu 04 Jun 2009 03:04, Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> I built and installed libunistring this evening, to /usr/local, and > now ./configure is failing for me at: > > checking size of float... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof > (float) I had this at one point today, as well, when I had installed libunistring into /opt/foo/ but had my libdir wrong (/opt/foo/lib vs /opt/foo/lib64)... Crazy to get an error about sizeof(float). I wish unistring added its info to UNISTRING_CFLAGS/UNISTRING_LIBS like other libraries instead of CFLAGS so it would affect checks like this. While we're complaining about the build :-) It seems we require gperf now. Is that correct? Can that build-dependency be removed somehow? It seems to be a build-time dependency, though it could be only for maintainers. If in fact it is only for maintainers, perhaps we should keep the generated whatevers in git. I just had to ask the build folks at work to add unistring as a dep, and I'm a little concerned about asking for gperf too :P > configure:52553: ccache gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -L/usr/local/lib > -lunistring -R/usr/local/lib -lgmp -lcrypt -lm -lltdl >&5 > gcc: unrecognized option '-R/usr/local/lib' I think that's how my error panned out too, but for you it should work. Maybe we should get Bruno involved, if Ludovic doesn't know anything... > Ludo, Andy, I'm wondering why this isn't a problem for you too. Is it > because you've installed libunistring in /usr, perhaps? On my laptop, yes, in anticipation of someone packaging it up. Grr unpackaged dependencies!! Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
