Indeed - ill add some minimum version checking and turn off anything unnecessary.
While I'm at it, what is your automake and libtool (or glibtool on the Mac) version? I intend to try successively older versions until I find what is really needed. -Ben On Mar 5, 2012, at 1:09 PM, "John Peterson" <jwpeter...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
