[GEM-dev] Re: [GEM-cvs] Gem/src/Gnu configure.in

B. Bogart ben at ekran.org
Wed May 25 16:54:06 CEST 2005


Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for all the work Jamie, if you knew how happy I would be to not
worry about powerbuilder anymore. :) At least in the way I was worrying
about it.

B.

james tittle wrote:
> On May 24, 2005, at 12:55 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>> james tittle wrote:
>>
>>> blech....
>>>
>>> On May 24, 2005, at 2:21 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> i guess it is like:
>>>> paste the code into acinclude.m4
>>>> run "aclocal"
>>>> run "autoconf"
>>>> run "./configure"
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ...btw, I figured out why I was getting a spurious "copy.o" in my /
>>> Manips makefile:  configure is really, really, really dumb!  In the
>>> finder I had duplicated "camera.cpp", which auto names the duplicated
>>> file to "camera copy.cpp"...configure then apparently got confused
>>> by  a
>>> "name with a space", which really is pathetic in this day and
>>> age...again, why is this considered a good build system?
>>>
>>
>> this has nothing to do with autoconf.
>> it is just a simple script "makesource" which does "ls *.cpp >>
>> Make.source"
>> so you can either blame the script or ls.
>>
>> a workaround might be using something like
>>   ls *.cpp | sed -e 's/ /\\ /g' >> Make.source
>> and consider all platforms that do not have "sed" installed to be
>> inferior :)
>
>
> ...or at least make 'sed' a requirement for compiling gem ;)
>
> ...well, after taking a non-configure way out of the whole sinf()
> defining, I then discovered that I was using some undocumented  altivec
> functions that somehow worked :-)  There was an easy solution  to
> that...and then there were quite a few other little easy problems
> (mostly to do with compiling files I'd never played with before, like
> the pix_filmNEW stuff), and before ya know it, I was down to the
> linking stage...
>
> ...for linking I had to hand enter some makefile stuff, with the end
> result being that it finally compiled, linked, and loaded!  Whew...as
> soon as I can sort things out a bit more here (and test objects
> better), I'll start committing the changes...
>
> jamie
>
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