On Oct 4, 2018, at 09:24, Mark Brethen wrote:
> I’m not sure how to handle this build setup: in the top directory there is a
> makefile but the configure files are in a subdirectory “src”. The makefile
> handles it thusly,
>
> all:
> cd src; \
> autoconf; \
> autoheader
> mkdir -p $(BUILD); \
> cd $(BUILD); \
> ../src/configure --disable-universal; \
> $(MAKE)
>
> and so I get the following error:
>
> ---> Configuring libreduce
> Error: Failed to configure libreduce: configure failure: command execution
> failed
> Error: See
> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_Users_marbre_ports_math_reduce/libreduce/main.log
> for details.
> Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
> Error: Processing of port libreduce failed
>
> If I use 'use_configure no’ in my portfile then it won’t configure the way
> macport’s intends.
Sounds like you should do something like:
use_autoreconf yes
autoreconf.dir ${worksrcpath}/src
configure.dir ${workpath}/build
configure.cmd ${autoreconf.dir}/configure
pre-configure {
xinstall -d ${configure.dir}
}
build.dir ${configure.dir}
