Re: [Radmind-devel] Addition to configure

[Patrick M. <mc...@um...>]

On Dec 19, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Glenn Holliday wrote:

> We've extended the radmind configure scripts to support a new (to us)
> cross compiler.  Is anybody else interested?

Yes - it sounds like a good contribution.

> I see a configure.ac in the SourceForge repository, but I don't see  
> one in
> the radmind download we've been using.  We're using radmind 1.5.1.   
> I suppose we may have made a mistake and lost the configure.ac.

That was a bug - I've modified the EXCLUDE file so configure.ac will  
be included in future releases.  For now, you can get the current  
version via cvs.

>   I'm not an autoconf expert, but I'm interested in eventually  
> lifting our changes up
> from configure to configure.ac.   Is there significant interest in our
> changes?  If not, I won't rush that task.

Autonconf works by taking configure.ac and creating a portable  
configure script that should run on most platforms.  To fit into this  
model, your modification would need to be made in the radmind  
configure.ac file.  Feel free to submit a patch on the Radmind  
SourceForge site and we'll work on getting the fix in.

> Also if anybody is interested, we build and run radmind on HP/UX.  I
> notice neither ConcurrentOS (we use the PowerMaxOS version) nor HP/ 
> UX are
> on the list of supported platforms at
> http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/.

Once we get this fix in, I'll be sure to update the list of supported  
platforms.

--Patrick