On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) <benjamin.kir...@nasa.gov> wrote: > This coming along quite nicely I think. My last step is to clean out the > Make.common definitions and then test including it in client projects. I > started on that over the weekend and don't see any issues with maintaining > that functionality. > > The biggest changes from the developer's perspective will be > > (1) files must manually be added to ./Makefile.am and ./include/Makefile.am > (2) METHOD is now a configure-time variable. Multiple build methods are > still supported and are properly installed into different paths, but must be > built from different directories. For example, I handle it like this: > > $ ./bootstrap > $ mkdir $METHOD > $ cd $METHOD > $ ../configure ... > > As part of this process I have also cleaned up almost all of our M4 sources > for consistency and brevity. I recognize that automake is a big > stepfunction in our build process, but I think this will make long-term > maintenance a lot easier. > > If anyone is feeling adventurous give ^/branches/libmesh.automake a whirl: > > $ svn co > https://libmesh.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/libmesh/branches/libmesh.automake > $ cd libmesh.automake > $ ./bootstrap > $ ./configure --with-method=devel --prefix=/tmp/foo > $ make -j 18 > $ make -j 18 check > $ make install > $ make installcheck > $ make -j 18 distcheck
I suspect this could be because I have an old autotools: $ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. But I get an error when calling bootstrap inl421321(592)$ ./bootstrap autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: glibtoolize --copy glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `build-aux'. glibtoolize: copying file `build-aux/ltmain.sh' glibtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'. glibtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4' glibtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4' glibtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4' glibtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4' glibtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4' autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force configure.ac:53: option `color-tests' not recognized autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 -- John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
