Re: Question about automake fails to pass the correct parameters to pax when using large UID/GID
Hello Xufeng Zhang, thanks for the report. * xufeng zhang wrote on Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 05:24:18AM CEST: I'm a developer from WindRiver, and I have a question about automake. When I using a large UID/GID(2097151) to configure and build a linux project, gnu tar fails and automake select pax as a replacement. However, automake seems fail to pass the correct parameters to pax(we are using ustar as archive format), the build hangs at: [...] checking how to create a ustar tar archive... ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required. Ready for archive volume: 1 Input archive name or . to quit pax. Archive name I think the problem is caused by the maximum limitation of UID/GID for ustar archive format (Maximum value of UID/GID is 2097151). So if it is proper to increase the limitation for UID/GID in ustar? I don't know if there is any considerations for this limitation? I don't think there is much that can be done about this in Automake, as that seems to be a limitation inheren in the ustar format. See info Automake --index 'ustar format' and the link to the Formats node of the GNU tar manual a couple of paragraphs further down. IIUC then you'd either have to change to a different UID/GID with lower values, or modify the package to use a different archive format. If you still think that Automake is in the position to do something about this, then please provide more details (as I'm not exactly an expert in archive formats portability). Thanks, Ralf
Re: ax_lib_mysql.m4 and -as-needed flag
Hello Sergio, * Sergio Belkin wrote on Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:44:20PM CEST: I am using ax_lib_mysql.m4 in order to detect location of mysql libs, but the problem is that LD_FLAGS is a mixed if LD_FLAGS and LIBS: -rdynamic -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lssl -lcrypto The problem is that I want only link against mysqlclient, so I want to add --as-needed be honored, how can I do that? Put -Wl,--as-needed before the whole list, and -Wl,--no-as-needed afterwards? I should note that this will not work if you're linking with libtool and creating a shared library (which is a bug/limitation in libtool). Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
Re: ax_lib_mysql.m4 and -as-needed flag
2010/10/30 Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de: Hello Sergio, * Sergio Belkin wrote on Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:44:20PM CEST: I am using ax_lib_mysql.m4 in order to detect location of mysql libs, but the problem is that LD_FLAGS is a mixed if LD_FLAGS and LIBS: -rdynamic -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lssl -lcrypto The problem is that I want only link against mysqlclient, so I want to add --as-needed be honored, how can I do that? Put -Wl,--as-needed before the whole list, and -Wl,--no-as-needed afterwards? I should note that this will not work if you're linking with libtool and creating a shared library (which is a bug/limitation in libtool). Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf Good point I am using now tha macro ax_ext_have_lib that it's closer to what I'm looking for but has issues either which I will report on a different thread. TIA -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -
Copy files in VPATH build
Hello, When building my package with ./configure everything works well as some datafiles that are required for tests are in the correct place (my tests don't need to be installed with make install). However, when I use VPATH builds with ../configure, I don't know how to get my data files copied from the source to the current build path. I've just read up on VPATH, and I think gmake is assuming, that while the datafiles are in the source, the dependencies are satisfied, even though they aren't in the build directory. The following rules don't work: test.ini: @srcdir@/test.ini cp $ $@ ./test.ini: @srcdir@/test.ini cp $ $@ But the rule: test2.ini: @srcdir@/test.ini cp $ $@ does work, but I don't need to rename the file in the copy, and when not using VPATH, it just performs a useless copy. Any ideas? Regards, Jason.
Re: Copy files in VPATH build
On Oct 30, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Jason Curl jcurln...@arcor.de wrote: Hello, When building my package with ./configure everything works well as some datafiles that are required for tests are in the correct place (my tests don't need to be installed with make install). However, when I use VPATH builds with ../configure, I don't know how to get my data files copied from the source to the current build path. I've just read up on VPATH, and I think gmake is assuming, that while the datafiles are in the source, the dependencies are satisfied, even though they aren't in the build directory. The following rules don't work: test.ini: @srcdir@/test.ini cp $ $@ ./test.ini: @srcdir@/test.ini cp $ $@ But the rule: test2.ini: @srcdir@/test.ini cp $ $@ does work, but I don't need to rename the file in the copy, and when not using VPATH, it just performs a useless copy. Any ideas? Regards, Jason. Jason, The only thing I've way I've overcome this is to have a test runner that gets built by configure so it can have access to both the build and source directory paths. Although, this means you still have to know wither every file is built or not. If you find something cleaner I'd definitely be interested in hearing about it. Paul Davis
Failure on test parallel-tests5.test
Hello, sorry to provide this little information, but building automake 1.11.1 on mips linux n32 today failed to me in a single test: parallel-tests5.test I don't have the log for that, because I had set in the build system to remove the source directory in case of failure. I've built automake 1.11.1 many times in that system, and parallel-tests5.test failed only once. I cannot reproduce it anymore. 'dmesg' does not show any trouble either. The system uses gcc 4.5.1 with glibc 2.12.1. I simply thought I better report it, as someone may want to review that test. Sorry again I cannot provide more information.
