Re: [Blitz-support] Repository questions, and where is configure?

[Mark S. <ms...@um...>]

Hello,

Thank you for your help.

I do not seem to be receiving reply messages from the list. I 
didn't subscribe, but expected at least to see Patrik's reply in 
my inbox instead of having to go to the web archive to read it.

Second, running "autoreconf -fiv" creates a "configure" file, but 
returns the following errors (on both RHEL 5.4 and Fedora 16):

$ autoreconf -fiv
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
configure.ac:84: warning: macro `AM_DISABLE_SHARED' not found in 
library
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:84: error: possibly undefined macro: 
AM_DISABLE_SHARED
       If this token and others are legitimate, please use 
m4_pattern_allow.
       See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:85: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

And then running "./configure" gives:

$ ./configure
configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool 
in config "."/config

This is using automake-1.11.1-5.fc14.noarch, 
autoconf-2.68-2.fc15.noarch, and libtool-ltdl-2.4-9.fc16.x86_64 
on the F16 machine,

and automake-1.9.6-2.3.el5, autoconf-2.59-12, and 
libtool-ltdl-1.5.22-6.1 on RHEL 5.4.

Mark




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Hi Mark,

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Mark Stock <mstock@...> wrote:
> Hello, returning Blitz++ user here (haven't played with it in 8+
> years) with a few questions:
>
> 1) Are there both CVS and mercurial repositories? I found mention
> of both in the blitz-support e-mail archive, and want to know
> which I should use.

Yeah, this is unfortunately confusing, but the current repo is the
mercurial one.

>
> 2) I downloaded BLitz++ using the following command
>
> hg clone http://blitz.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/blitz/blitz
>
> and the "configure" file seems to be missing. I'm not sure 
> where to go from here.

Configure is a generated file, so it's not in the repo. Do 
"autoreconf -fiv" to get it.

> 3) When I build the v0.9 package (with ./configure and make 
> lib) I don't get a lib/libblitz.a, just a lib/libblitz.la. The 
> .a was in the lib/.libs/ directory. Why wasn't it created as 
> part of the build?

The 0.9 is so old I can't say, but the .la is typically a libtool 
file. In these cases, you can usually find the actual library 
under .libs or something similar. But don't use 0.9, it's too 
old.