Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:56:25 +0100 From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: configure scripts appear broken with new autoconf Message-ID: <20020111015625.0903e417.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020110142223.mheffner@novacoxmail.com> References: <XFMail.20020110142223.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
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--GUflT)tIo/1uv5=. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:22:23 -0500 (EST) Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com> wrote: [...] > However, when the configure script reaches this point, $target is an > empty string, so $lt_target becomes an empty string. Originally, in > configure scripts generated with autoconf-2.13, the $target variable > was initialized to 'NONE' and then was reset if the '--target' option > was specified. However, configure scripts generated with > autoconf-2.5.2 don't initialize $target to 'NONE', and therefore the > above code segment sets$lt_target to a zero-length string if the > '--target' option isn't specified. > > Has anyone else encountered this problem? I'm hoping this could be > fixed before 4.5-rel, because it means that using autoconf outside of > the ports system is broken. This doesn't appear to effect building > ports from within the ports system, because I believe the ports system > manually specifies the target when running configure (but I might be > wrong...). i had the same issue here while building from some cvs sources. i fixed it temporarily by adding --target=i386 but thought about how tgz release engineers might do that :) i didn't check how ports are building with that but i also think this needs to be corrected. cheerz corecode -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/ \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News --GUflT)tIo/1uv5=. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8Pjg9r5S+dk6z85oRAiWbAJ0UiUe5RrfNou976bzGEwt9GyKAzACcDEWs v8VV4ai6El8PswyqeSQLIX8= =fBJz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GUflT)tIo/1uv5=.-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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