[Edoc-main] Installation problems

[Will M. <wil...@us...>]

Hello,
I'm really, really anxious to try edoc out, but I'm having trouble. First,
it doesn't compile on Mac OS due to a lack of libbfd. Interestingly,
configure checks for libbfd but doesn't consider its absence a failure, even
though the build will fail if libbfd is not there. This is probably a bug.

Then I switched to FreeBSD. It took a little trickery to get the build to
work. I had to create a symbolic link to /usr/local/lib/libpython2.5.so,
since the edoc build only looks for libpython. Then, my configure invocation
looks like this:

LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/python2.5
LIBS=-lpthread ./configure

Setting --with-libpython doesn't work, since you can't set it to /usr/local
due to the location of the headers.

Then the build failed because bfd_utils.cpp does not include <sys/stat.h>,
even though it uses struct stat. It also fails while building gcc due to
conflicting declarations of the function strsignal, which I resolved by
commenting the edoc-included one out.

Finally, with edoc successfully built on FreeBSD I get the following at
every invocation:

$ edoc Connection.hpp
Filed opening file: Connection.hpp
Reason: Unknown file type.
$

It doesn't matter what input I give edoc. It will tell me that the file type
is unknown in every instance, without fail, even if the input is a
directory.

Thanks for any help,
Will