Hi Eliot,

I know near to nothing to this configure stuff, so don't consider this answer as volunteering ;).

I just want to report problems:

Last time I tried to build spur vm on ubuntu 14, the vm compilation did not succeed (don't remember how but I can replay it).

I got to install an old version of autotools before being able to make configure from platforms/unix/config

That did not solve anything because now the vm compilation barks about mmap being required.

2017-02-26 2:46 GMT+01:00 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com>:

Hi Holger, Hi Linux/unix build people

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Holger Freyther <holger@freyther.de> wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2017, at 17:09, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
>
>
> I hit a snag building pharo debug VM...

>
> By doing... $ sudo chattr +i libtool
>
> I found libtool was created by configure...
> rm: cannot remove 'libtool': Operation not permitted
> chmod: changing permissions of 'libtool': Operation not permitted
>
> $ ./mvm invokes...
> ../../../platforms/unix/config/configure

pushd ../../../platforms/unix/config
make configure

sorry about that. Normally one would not check-in a configure script (and related files such as libtool) and I thought I could avoid having to delete these files and just re-generate it when needed/wanted. I had to add the --preserve-dup-deps option to be able to link with newer libtool and didn't consider that the old copy of libtool would bail out with an error.

Then let's rewrite the system so that configure is always made, precisely once. We can arrange that there's a real configure (e.g. ../../../platforms/unix/configure/configure) which is invoked from ../../../platforms/unix/config/configure. And we can add a check to ../../../platforms/unix/config/configure that will make ../../../platforms/unix/configure/configure if necessary.

Please, who will volunteer to do this?

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best, Eliot