Hi David, thanks for the mail. David Schweikert wrote:
>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. > ntop comes with both configure and the autogen.sh file that should be used only by developers. Unfortunately configure generated with an old auto* version has problems on platforms with new auto*. That's the point. On OSX for instance I have to play some tricks to havbe ntop running with the OSX libtool. > >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). > You're right: I asked Rocco (who has written the auto* for ntop) to fix this but he said that the current design is fine. Bottom line: auto* need to be polished and I'm not too good with auto*, so I need help from people. Cheers, Luca > >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 >> >> >> > > > -- Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://luca.ntop.org/ Hacker: someone who loves to program and enjoys being clever about it - Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
