[Vm-dev] Rebuilding configure script for linux vm

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Nov 1 01:06:16 UTC 2016


On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:20:48PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> >> On 27-10-2016, at 4:02 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> But ion the short term,
> >> 1) fix the path in platforms/unix/plugins/UnicodePlugin/acinclude.m4, commit and push
> > 
> > 
> 
> Done and appears to be correct in the repository.
> 
> > 
> >> 2) ask someone who has a system that will rebuild configure to do so, and wait for them to do so and commit and push
> > 
> > 
> 
> Please rebuild configure, somebody. Pretty please?

This has not worked on my Ubuntu laptop PC for quite some time. The newer gcc
compiler no longer recognizes a flag used in the old configure script, so
rebuilding config seems to be needed. To do that, I tried installing various
versions of autotools, and none seemed to be able to rebuild configure on my
system. I don't recall the exact symptoms, but nothing that I tried seemed to
work. Presumably some updates would be needed in platforms/unix/config if the
the autotools build is going to be maintained.

Has anyone else made progress on this?

> 
> > 
> >> 3) try again with the revised configure script
> 
> I did manage to build a working version by hacking the configure and makefile directly. Which is awful, appalling, dangerous, risky, unwise, unpleasant, wrong, foolish and probably unlawful. But it worked.
> 
> Next question - does anyone have objections to adding the ScratchPlugin and UnicodePlugin to the general builds for x86 (and whatever other) builds? I???d suggest external plugins to make it easier to leave them out of any distributions.
> 

I cannot think of any reason not to do that, as long as they plausibly compile,
and run on platforms of interest. That's what external plugins are for :-)

Dave



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