On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Chris Toshok wrote:
> "Aaron M. Renn" wrote:
>
> > Chris Toshok ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > How would people feel about moving the japhar sources over to using NSPR
> > > exclusively? The original purpose of NSPR was to make porting
> >
> > I've tried building NSPR before, and found it very painful. It used
> > some type of homebrew configure/build system that was not based on
> > automake/autoconf and which involved very wierd directory structures
> > and tons of symbolic links. Has the install process been improved at all?
I tried to build NSPR on an IRIX system with no luck. There is a very
strange series of steps needed to get NSPR to compile on this and I am
sure other systems (see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/irix.html). NSPR
seems to work fine on "supported" systems (like Win, Mac, and Linux)
but others seem to be out in the cold.
I hope that helps
Mo DeJong
> well, the install process has always been easy (if a little cryptic :)
>
> gmake NSDISTMODE=copy DIST=/usr/local/nspr export libs install
>
> it is definitely a homebrewed system, but it can work with autoconf (the
> mozilla build marries them successfully.) the toplevel japhar Makefile.am
> would have to contain some smarts, but not too much, i don't think.
>
> xtoph
>
