[Vm-dev] Rebuilding configure script for linux vm

[Eliot Miranda]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 6:06 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

>
> 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?
>

I maintain a 5.3 CentOS installation (as a VM) just for this purpose.  I'm
/really/ looking forward to being able to nuke it.


>
> >
> > >
> > >> 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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best, Eliot
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