Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] my current list of workarounds to get elftoolchain to install on Ubuntu

[Ed M. <em...@fr...>]

On 20 February 2015 at 17:10, Daniel Wilkerson
<dan...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Ok, but at least do a 0.6.2 release that at least includes this fix to
> a major bug.  That is, do bug fix releases when show-stopper bugs are
> fixed so that the public release is at least not *known* to be buggy.
> Or just don't do public releases at all and tell people to get the
> latest version from svn; I do this on some projects.

Ok, that's a fair point. I've only been an elftoolchain committer for
a few days, so I'll defer to the others on this.

>>> on Linux, the instructions are wrong: just using pmake will not work,
>>> you must invoke it as follows:
>>>
>>>     $ NOGCCERROR=1 pmake
>>
>> What errors do you see if you do not?
>
> Some warning that turns into a build error; I can't recall as it has
> been a while.  However it was a *lot* of work to figure this out:
> grepping around through files here and there.  This is the kind of
> thing that will stop most people, so if you want to increase adoption,
> just fixing this one point could make a major difference.

As far as I can tell this flag fixes the build by disabling -Werror.
We should probably do two things here: fix the warnings that were
promoted into errors, and also only enable -Werror on the platforms
normally used by developers (i.e., in my case FreeBSD and Clang).

> Again, I have not tried it for a while, so I no longer recall exactly,
> but I tried using -I and -L in the obvious ways and some of your
> internal includes didn't find each other.  If the "install in a local
> non-default directory" instructions from INSTALL work, then that
> provides a way for people to build but not override the default
> install.

Ok - I don't see these errors, so I won't be able to make any progress
without details about what's failing.