compiling the source (VPATH err)

2014-03-13 Thread Danesh Daroui
Dear all, I have downloaded and compiled successfully the source code of Pike-v7.8.700. Now when I clone the git repository of Pike, the make complains about VPATH is not supported by make. I have modified VPATH variable to point to the where the source code (compiled previously) resides, but the

Re: compiling the source (VPATH err)

2014-03-13 Thread Bill Welliver
Hi Danesh, What type of system are you using? What version of make is complaining? I assume you're trying to compile from the 8.0 pre-release branch? Bill On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Danesh Daroui wrote: Dear all, I have downloaded and compiled successfully the source code of Pike-v7.8.700. Now

Re: compiling the source (VPATH err)

2014-03-13 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi there, I have a Linux machine (OpenSuSE 13.1) and I use GNU Make 3.82. According to the instructions, I cloned the following repository by running git clone git://pike-git.lysator.liu.se/pike.git so I am not sure whether it is a pre-release or stable one. Another thing is that I use rather

Re: compiling the source (VPATH err)

2014-03-13 Thread Bill Welliver
Hmm, As for the branch, you should get something that looks like this (I think the branch will vary depending on the last commit): [hww3@delta pike]$ git branch 7.6 7.9 * 8.0 So you might need to do a git checkout 8.0, assuming 8.0 is the version you want. I also assume you're just

Re: compiling the source (VPATH err)

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Danesh Daroui danesh.dar...@gmail.com wrote: I have only the branch for version 8.0. I upgraded my autoconf (it is weird if autoconf 2.13 is the source of the problem!) and now the error with VPATH is gone, but at the end, compilation fails and no executable is

Re: compiling the source (VPATH err)

2014-03-13 Thread H. William Welliver III
Ok, so I’ve installed autoconf 2.13 on my SL6.4 vm and it looks like it has the same problem, so 2.13 support in pike must finally be dead. As for the log file you attached, I don’t see any actual errors. Does the build just not run post-configure? Or is it failing on that call to