"Steven Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/12/06, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks. I did see it. ISTR that one problem is you switched >> from an AC_ macro to a now-deprecated AM_ one. Support for deprecated >> bits will likely be phased out in upcoming releases. So it's best not to >> use them in new projects. > > Yes I did do that. That's what the error message told me to do. Alan > had suggested that I try getting it working with standard tools on > RHEL3.
I've tried to explain that there is no point in trying to make the bootstrap procedure work for older build environments. In fact, doing so would be seriously counterproductive. >> Remember that people using such packages are typically encouraged >> to start with an RPM or a tarball. That you're using development >> tools implies you are more, um... adventurous, progressive, etc., >> at least on the build-tools front. > > Yeah I remember > >> That's why I suggested you get the latest stable version of automake. > > Well I could do that but it seems to be working already. Are you sure > automake 1.10 is the latest stable? Yes. > As I said, the GNU Automake site doesn't say so I was left to pick my > own version... Where did you look? There may well be a page that needs to be updated. This is the home page: http://sources.redhat.com/automake/ It says: The latest released version of Automake is 1.10 and it can be found on ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors. Here's the link: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.10.tar.bz2 FYI, the http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ page does say "See the GNU Automake home page", which is a link to the above URL. >> > It seems that libapr-1 isn't included as a link parameter for the tests. >> > >> > I've tried greping through the Makefiles and whatnot but can only find >> > something about setting up the APR CXX flags... no the libs... >> >> It's in client/Makefile.am: Look for APR_LIBS. > > APR_LIBS does seem to be used in lib/common/Makefile.am > It's not there in lib/client/Makefile.am But nothing in lib/client should need libapr. libapr should be been linked into the `common' shared library. > In addition, APR_LIBS doesn't appear to be defined anywhere. It is defined by configure. The actual value it gets set to can be seen in lib/common/Makefile. For me it's empty because I turned it off: $ grep APR_LIBS.= lib/common/Makefile APR_LIBS =
