On Monday 05 July 2004 6:57 pm, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> Hi guys!
>
> I am struggling on with my VM-building exercises, this time I am trying
> to build Ned's branch, checked out from SqF (may be slightly outdated,
> but my issue is probably not related - see below).
>
> I have successfully built Ian's 3.6 and 3.7b sources before.
>
> According to a hint from Ned that I found I explicitly used aclocal-1.7
> instead of just aclocal - that made it work. But I had to manually hack
> /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 so that it doesn't try to call find_configure_ac,
> because I have no idea where that function is! Anyway, this made it work
> with autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.8.5, which are the latest releases
> AFAIK.
>
> But... my VM src is from a 3.7b-5969, with this essentially just latest
> VMMaker and OSProcess installed from SM. When it compiles the VM itself
> it barfs at the "fptr" like this:
>
> 	gnu-interp.c:741: error: syntax error before "const"
>
> I am using gcc 3.3.3. Not sure how to handle this, any hints
> appreciated.
>
> regards, Göran
>
> PS. Still not sure what status we have on the SF HEAD vs SF-ned-branch
> vs Ian's source tarballs. We really, really ought to try to get this
> settled in a good way. Since we are now (I assume) going to do the move
> from SF to SqF it seems like a good time to get this in "order". :)

You should use the SF HEAD branch. My stuff is a bit out of date.

You might also try changing configure.ac so it says:

AC_INIT([config.h.in],1)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_VM_VERSION(3,7b,5, 3,7b,5868)

etc...
-- 
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com