On 05/12/06, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
I understand that point of view.
It didn't seem to couterproductive though as it hasn't been working
for me on Ubuntu Edgy or on RHEL3. By making a couple of small changes
I have ./bootstap running without error. Now it's just a matter of
figuring out why the APR libraries aren't included in the link
commands!
For what it's worth my original plan had been to build the ./configure
at home on Ubuntu Edgy and email the ./configure script into work to
run on rhel3. That didn't work out because ./bootstrap failed on
Ubuntu Edgy.
Where did you look? There may well be a page that needs to be updated.
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
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.
Hah well I didn't noticed that. It didn't say click here to find out
what the stable version is.
But nothing in lib/client should need libapr.
libapr should be been linked into the `common' shared library.
Maybe it's not working.
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 =
Well it's not for me:
$ grep APR_LIBS lib/common/Makefile
$(APR_LIBS) \
Maybe it's because I'm using these old autotools version. Tomorrow
I'll try with automake 1.10 and see if it works with the latest stable
autotools.
Cheers,
Steve.
