[PD-dev] Mac OS X 10.5 vs zexy's autogen.sh

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 17:03 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 22:42 +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
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> > On 10/05/2011 10:04 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 21:42 +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
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> > >> On 10/05/2011 09:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> > >>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:45 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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> > >>>> On 2011-10-05 18:16, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> > >>>>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:05 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> The logfile I see says its set to:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2011-10-05/logs/2011-10-05_03.15.09_darwin_macosx105-i386_pd-extended.txt
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> the same logfiles also says:
> > >>>> PATH: /sw/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
> > >>>
> > >>> Ah, I see, where you post it in zexy/autogen.sh.  But the build
> > >>> environment has:
> > >>>
> > >>> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> yes, i was trying to explain that (zexy's, but also Pd's) autogen.sh
> > >> prepends the /sw/bin/ to the path manually.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>> which suggests that your libtool setup is broken :-)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> you could try comparing the ./libtool generated on your machine and the
> > >>>> one generated on the PdLab machine.
> > >>>
> > >>> seems so, I did a reinstall and 'svn up' and it now builds on my machine.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ah cool
> > >> so at least OSX world is happy again :-)
> > > 
> > > Its closer, but not quite there, the build this afternoon failed again
> > > on the same thing:
> > > 
> > 
> > not quite.
> > zexy finished fine!
> > but it failed when building Gem (from which zexy inherited its
> > autogen.sh script)
> > 
> > it's fixed in Gem's git, though not in Gem's svn.
> > 
> > i really wonder why the problems appear now, as the relevant script has
> > been in use for several months now)
> 
> Perhaps your zexy scripts are modifying the build environment?  It first
> calls "make all" on everything, which would run the ./autogen.sh
> scripts, then it runs "make install".  Just a guess.
> 
> .hc
> 

Why not just use the ./autogen.sh in puredata.git and stick to the older
versions of the autotools?  It works everywhere.  This dev time could
really be better spent on so many more interesting and useful things
that you have going, like iemguts, Gem, double-precision pd, and your
own art even!   I think zexy's and Gem's build systems are far too
complicated, just about everyone else fears them, no one wants to get
that deep into m4 or autotools.

Plus its still broken on Windows, it builds .a files not .dll.  zexy
doesn't even use libraries besides libc, a simple Makefile would work
fine.

.hc