I'll get Javier to answer further, but the basic answer is that none of the OS/2 specific autoconf changes have ever been checked into GNU autoconf, so we cannot use the configure that is part of Mozilla because it doesn't have any of the VACPP stuff. We have to generate our own.
If you just want to build NSPR, go to NSPR and delete configure. Then run bash and run autoconf. Then you should be able to build NSPR. Javier produced all of our autoconf changes. I'll let him provide more info. Mike Kaply IBM Julien Pierre wrote: > I am trying to set up an OS/2 build environment for Netscape components > - not the full browser. > Looking at the instructions at > http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/vacppbuild.html, it says the various > "configure" files have to be deleted. Then one has to build from the top > level client.mk . This might work fine for building the browser but it > won't work for building individual components, because client.mk simply > isn't part of the components tree (eg. I check out only mozilla/nsprpub). > > I tried running the configure script with the VACPP build environment > and got a failure with the compiler : > > This file contains any messages produced by compilers while > running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. > > configure:618: checking host system type > configure:639: checking target system type > configure:657: checking build system type > configure:958: checking for whoami > configure:1808: checking for c++ > configure:1840: checking whether the C++ compiler (icc ) works > configure:1856: icc -o conftest conftest.C 1>&5 > IBM* C and C++ Compilers for OS/2*, AIX* and for Windows NT**, Version 3.6 > (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1991, 1997 All Rights Reserved. > * registered trademarks of IBM Corp., ** registered trademark of > Microsoft Corp. > > IBM(R) Linker for OS/2(R), Version 03.06.PPK1981104 > Copyright (C) IBM Corporation 1988, 1998. > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1988, 1989. > All rights reserved. > > D:\wtc\mozilla\nsprpub\conftest.obj(conftest.C) : error LNK2025: main : > symbol defined more than once. Original definition in > D:\wtc\mozilla\nsprpub\conftest.obj(conftest.C) > > There was 1 error detected > configure: failed program was: > > #line 1851 "configure" > #include "confdefs.h" > > int main(){return(0);} > > Apparently the compiler is called with a Unix-like "-o object" syntax, > which does not work for ICC in OS/2. > I don't know anything about how autoconf works so I'm not sure how to > fix the problem. I would like to make this work right though and am > curious why the OS/2 browser uses a different process without configure > and how to patch it up so the components can be built separately from > the browser on OS/2. > > -- > The network is the computer, and it's down
