On Jan 26, 2005, at 3:22 AM, Aaron Walker wrote:
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Firstly, I missed the first part of this thread, so I apologize if I'm missing
the bigger picture.
Curt Arnold wrote: | The migration to Apache Portable Runtime should eliminate most if not | all of the need for autogen.sh and configure in building log4cxx.
I know zilch about APR (although I'll need to learn since I maintain the Gentoo
~ port ;p), but what does APR have to do with autogen.sh/configure? or is the
"Runtime" in APR misleading?
The use of Apache Portable Runtime substantially reduces the need for capability detection within log4cxx since APR presents a uniform runtime environment to log4cxx. At the present time, log4cxx doesn't even include the generated config files. The current autoconf/configure files are hold-overs from when log4cxx needed to know if pthreads or libxml2 etc were available. The only thing that I could see would add value is to know if mbsnrtowcs and wcsnrtombs are available. There presence is detected by the current script, but the preprocessor macros are not used at this time. The old scripts could likely be radically simplified at this point.
| However, the current use of autogen.sh and configure have not been
| modified to reflect the migration. It is not an area that I'm expert in
| and would appreciate any suggestions, patches or comments.
I'll see if I can get get log4cxx setup on my BSD box, and what kind of magic
(besides autogen.sh of course) is required to get it built.
The Ant based build can be used to build log4cxx and do not require the use of autogen or configure. The steps would be:
Install Ant Build APR, APR-iconv and APR-util Build cpptasks.jar from CVS (http://sf.net/projects/ant-contrib) export CLASSPATH=cpptasks.jar ant -Dapr.dir=/usr/local/apr-1
I'm likely to modify the Ant build so that it will automatically build APR if not detected. Running the unit-tests requires CppUnit and boost-regex. Getting boost-regex to build on Gump (which uses a custom version of jam to build) seems like way too much work, so I might migrate the unit tests to exec sed instead.
