- From: Bryan B. Thompson <bryan@cog-tech.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 08:44:57 -0400
- To: www-lib@w3.org, bryan@server.internal.cog-tech.com
Hello, I searched through the archives, but I did not see much at all dealing with the bootstrapping process what to do when it fails. Therefore, .... I have the current CVS release of libwww. I have updated and installed: automake 1.4 autoconf 2.13 and libtool 1.3 I am using gcc 2.7.2.1 and make 3.74. When running "aclocal; autoheader; ...", I get the following problems in autoheader (see below). $ autoheader configure.in:44: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX configure.in:188: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:189: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:192: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:193: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:194: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling There is a comment at configure.in(44): dnl Remove next line and you get an error -- autoconf dnl should deal with this automatically. AC_ISC_POSIX that suggests commenting out the AC_ISC_POSIX may be the right thing to do, however that generates a different set of errors (see below). $ autoheader configure.in:188: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:189: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:192: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:193: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:194: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:197: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX configure.in:197: AC_TRY_RUN was called before AC_ISC_POSIX From what I can glean, the warnings are not a problem. However, the error in the first run on line 44, and the errors in the second run on line 197, may be a 'problem'. Further, if I continue to attempt the bootstrapping process, I get errors such as below (I have attached the errors with both the original line 44 of configure.in and the errors when that line is commented out using the 'dnl ' comment syntax.) (Running automake and then autoconf with line 44 of configure.in unmodified.) $ autoconf configure.in:184: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:185: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:186: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:187: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:188: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:189: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:192: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:193: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:194: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:197: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX configure.in:197: AC_TRY_RUN was called before AC_ISC_POSIX autoconf: Undefined macros: ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DISABLE_FAST_INSTALL configure.in:44:xAC_ISC_POSIX (Running automake and then autoconf with line 44 of configure.in commented out.) $ autoconf configure.in:184: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:185: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:186: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:187: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:188: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:189: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:192: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:193: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:194: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling configure.in:197: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX configure.in:197: AC_TRY_RUN was called before AC_ISC_POSIX autoconf: Undefined macros: ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DISABLE_FAST_INSTALL [bryan@server libwww]$ Finally, if this bootstrapping process breaks in the middle, as it did for me, can it just be safely restarted. I realize that we are in the process of creating the makefiles, so there is not going to be any easy method for cleaning the distribution. I have check to insure that the bootstrapping process does not modify any of the checkout files from the CVS repository. -bryan
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