[Classpathx-discuss] automakejar w/ cygwin. was: Finally! Crypto make build

[Raif S. Naffah]

hello Nic,

>
> You can build it by doing the following:
>
>
>   $ autoconf
>   $ aclocal
>   $ ./automakejar Makefile.in
>   $ ./configure
>   $ make

this breaks at step #3 with the output:

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$ ./automakejar Makefile.in
Making Makefile.in from ./Makefile.aj
creating the target: gnucrypto
creating the target: gnucrypto-test
mv: cannot stat `Makefile.in.': No such file or directory
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on my cygwin installation --CYGWIN_NT-5.0 xxx 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25
11:14 i686 unknown-- i have the following versions of autoconf and automake:

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$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.53
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.6
Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>.

Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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cheers;
rsn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nic Ferrier" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 8:54 PM
Subject: [Classpathx-discuss] Finally! Crypto make build


> Apologies to everyone who helped with crypto stuff. You've been waiting
> for me to release it and I haven't because we didn't have a GNU
> build.
>
>
> I now have an answer to the build problem. It's a shell script called
> automakejar and it should work on a CYGWIN system (or anything with
> sh, sed and make so the UnxUtils should work as well).
>
> I have put a tar of my current crypto module on the classpathx ftp
> directory:
>
>   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpathx/crypto-build-demo.tar.gz
>
> You can build it by doing the following:
>
>
>   $ autoconf
>   $ aclocal
>   $ ./automakejar Makefile.in
>   $ ./configure
>   $ make
>
> You will need autoconf 2.52 because previous versions do not support
> the inclusion of local macros in the same way.
>
>
> I'm sure this could be done with automake, however there are some
> problems with automake. It is not as easy to get the new and old
> versions of automake running on the same system as it is to do the
> same with autoconf (I have 2.13 and 2.52 on this box quite happily
> but can only run automake 1.15).
>
> And with automake one tends to produce something that doesn't do
> dependancies in the same nice way that automakejar does.
>
>
> I hope that automakejar will eventually disappear and that we'll get
> the functionality that it supports into automake (by extending
> automake if we have to).
>
> But for now it seems to me that automakejar is a pretty neat solution.
>
> What do you think? Should I check these changes in?
>
>
> Nic
>
> PS if you're interested, you can get UnxUtils here:
>   http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
>
>
>
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