Re: ./configure issues

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, David Riebenbauer wrote:

> * Stéphane Bisinger <[email protected]> [2007-03-01 23:44]:
>> Hi,
>> I'd like to start a new discussion about ./configure issues. With the
>> version on the git repository, the build fails if msn is enabled
>> because it fails to find a target rule for dummy.c That is related to
>> the change made by David (if I'm not wrong) where he adds dummy.c in
>> the liblibmsn_a_SOURCES . I'll have to dig into this, but I won't have
>> any time until next week.
>
> What the hell? What aspect of autohell am I hitting now?

In my opinion this hell has to do with automake being misused, not that
  automake is the problem.

As you probably know, every library being used by center* is included, and 
when you run configure, the configure of every project (read: lib) is run, 
even when it isn't used iirc. This is ofcourse bad, and should change.

And this then again brings up the issue of keeping the protocol libs 
inside the project, or seperate them.

Lets not discuss that issue here, but in a seperate thread.

>
> To explain: I added dummy.c there because a build without libmsn would
> fail for me otherwise and I really thought this wouldn't affect the other
> case because the addition of dummy.c to SOURCES really is in the else
> bracnch of the "if BUILD_MSN" clause. I think I tested this too. And I'm
> a bit confused now.
>
>> Please report any other ./configure setting that fails! Send a
>> possible fix if you can, but simply reporting the error would be of
>> great help.
>
> I got a report on msn that shows that the tests for the external
> libraries in configure.ac don't work right. They won't actually disable
> the defines in config.h even if --withou-blabla is given.
>
> Same with incompatible version of libraries. A too old version of gpgme
> is detected but the script doesn't disable the defines and the build
> fails.
>
> I yet have to fix this. Just wanted to let you know about the issue. Or
> maybe someone more knowledgable with autotools trys to take this.
>
> Regards
> David
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Greetings,

Mark Pustjens

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