Re: Errors building GNU JAXP 1.1 with Cygwin

On 14 Oct 2004, at 14:10, Chris Burdess wrote:

> I separated the various parts of acinclude.m4 out into different files
> in the aclocal directory, so modify them (sosuffix.ac) there and then
> do
> 
>    cat aclocal/*.ac >acinclude.m4

Chris,

There is actually a section in aclocal/aclocal.m4 that processes 
Cygwin, it starts at line 3309:

cygwin* | mingw* | pw32*)
  version_type=windows
  shrext_cmds=".dll"
  need_version=no
  need_lib_prefix=no

... through to line 3329:

    case $host_os in
    cygwin*)
      # Cygwin DLLs use 'cyg' prefix rather than 'lib'
      soname_spec='`echo ${libname} | sed -e 's/^lib/cyg/'``echo 
${release} | $SED -e 's/[[.]]/-/g'`${versuffix}${shared_ext}'
      sys_lib_search_path_spec="/usr/lib /lib/w32api /lib 
/usr/local/lib"
      ;;

These sections seem to be setting up the prefixes and suffixes 
correctly, but they come _after_ the SOSUFFIX_CONFIG, 
MODSUFFIX_CONFIG and JMODSUFFIX_CONFIG sections when perhaps it is 
too late, hence:

checking SOSUFFIX from libtool... .so
checking MODSUFFIX from libtool... .so
checking JMODSUFFIX from libtool... .so

Maybe this $host_os section is for a different purpose? If it were 
moved to earlier in the configuration script would it be valid?


There is a section in aclocal/sosuffix.ac from line 57 that appears 
to assign the inappropriate .jnilib extension for the "Darwin" 
platform. However, the ./libxmlj.la file also appears to hard code 
the "missing" library:

# The name that we can dlopen(3).
dlname='libxmlj-0.99.jnilib'

# Names of this library.
library_names='libxmlj-0.99.jnilib libxmlj-0.99.jnilib libxmlj.jnilib'


Hence the make install error:

/bin/bash ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libxmlj.la 
/usr/local/lib
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libxmlj-0.99.jnilib /usr/local/lib/libxmlj-
0.99.jnilib
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `.libs/libxmlj-0.99.jnilib': No such 
file or direc
tory
make[1]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1


I'm afraid this is feeling rather like a maze to me at the moment. I 
would appreciate further pointers on the make sequence and the 
purpose of these elements. Thanks.

Best regards,

Phil