Hi Luca, I am happy to ear that you are trying to fix the building system of ntop.
You seem to miss the real problem though: you should distribute ntop without need at all for the auto* scripts on the build machine. The auto* tools are only used by the developers, you should ship only configure and the various .in files. You should also not run any auto* tools from the generated Makefile. Use maybe a separate developer Makefile for that. Most frustrating is when you ./configure, everything works and then make thinks it needs to rebuild configure, which was perfecly fine and then you cannot run ./configure anymore because the configure generation fails (because of auto* tools compatibility problems). Cheers David On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:02:12 +0200, Luca Deri wrote: > Hi all, > I've tackled down the problem that David and other people experienced > while compiling ntop. > > The problem is not related to Solaris but to auto*. Ntop has been > designed for autoconf 2.13, libtool 1.4 and so on. Most distributions > (e.g. RedHat) have both versions > > deri@athlon 229> ls -l /usr/bin/autoc* > 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 20 01:04 > /usr/bin/autoconf -> autoconf-2.13* > 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5141 Mar 27 2002 > /usr/bin/autoconf-2.13* > 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6196 Mar 27 2002 > /usr/bin/autoconf-2.53* > > with the default to the old legacy version. > > David's machine (a Sun with all the latest GNU tools installed) failed > to compile ntop because of this. > > We obviously need to move to the latest GNU auto* (despite their name, > they are not that "auto" as you can see). > > Volunteers out there? > > Cheers, Luca > > > -- > Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://luca.ntop.org/ > Hacker: someone who loves to program and enjoys being > clever about it - Richard Stallman > -- _ __| |___ David Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / _` / __| IT Support Group, D-ITET, ETH-Zurich | (_| \__ \ Tel: +41(0)1-6327019 Room: ETL F24.1 \__,_|___/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~dws/ _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
