Re: [Bug-mit-scheme] [bug #34689] [9.1] Build failure on x86_64-linux-gnu

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Matt Birkholz <address@hidden> skribis:

>> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
>> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:50:45 +0100
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> I actually read the fine src/README.txt, which led me to think that
>> ‘make’ alone would work.  Perhaps it should be updated to reflect that?
>
> How?

I was referring to the table and text under “Building from source on
unix systems”:

  The following table shows the commands used to transition the build
  tree from one build state to another.  All of the commands must be run
  in the "src" directory.

          From          To              Command
          ------------  ------------    ---------------------
          fresh         distribution    ./Setup.sh
          distribution  configured      ./configure
          configured    compiled        make
          compiled      configured      make clean
          compiled      distribution    make distclean
          compiled      fresh           make maintainer-clean
          configured    distribution    make distclean
          configured    fresh           make maintainer-clean

>> Would it be an option for you to have a top-level configure and
>> makefile that would allow ‘./configure && make’ to do the right
>> thing (info "(standards) Managing Releases")?
>
> I would like to see that, but I never learned to use VPATH, and do not
> use proprietary operating systems.  I dare not muck about in the build
> process more than I have already.  I tried to KISS it with something
> like
>
>       #! /bin/sh
>       (cd src; ./configure $*)
>       (cd doc; ./configure $*)
>
> But that does not do justice to `./configure --help'...

There could be a top-level configure.ac with:

  AC_INIT([MIT/GNU Scheme], [9.1], address@hidden, [mit-scheme])
  AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([src doc])

It should DTRT.  As a bonus, configure runs will use a shared cache.

The top-level makefile could be improved to support more targets.
Automake could be used for that, but since it’s not used for the rest of
the system, I guess you may be reluctant to using it for a single
convenience makefile.

Thanks,
Ludo’.