[htdig-dev] 'Configuration patch' problems fixed (hopefully)

[Gabriele B. <bar...@in...>]

Hi guys,

    I am happy to announce that I solve most of the problems that my patch 
brought into ht://Dig sources before I came to Australia.

    Now I can successfully run 'make check' on all of the compile farm's 
workstations (except Darwin, where I don't have an account - I used to!). 
Here is the summary:

    - AMD64 Linux 2.4;
    - Alpha Linux 2.2;
    - RedHat Linux 7.3 (Kernel 2.4);
    - SPARC Ultra60 Linux 2.4;
    - Sparc - R220 Sun Solaris (5.8).

    Basically, what I have done is to get rid of the 'partial' replacement 
functions I had put into the sources because they caused linkage problems 
under Solaris; maybe, in the future, we could think of adding replacement 
functions as the GNU Lib portability project suggests.

    I also had a problem when compiling a not shared libstdc++ under 
Solaris, and I had to slightly change the configure scripts in order to add 
the '-mimpure-text' linker flag for GCC.

    Finally I just tried and make the 'make dist' feature work, as we've 
never made it work under ht://Dig - AFAIK.

    In order to make it work, I had to modify some Makefile.am files and 
change the htdoc/cf_generate.pl in order to accept a parameter holding the 
name of the top source directory. There are other things that need to be 
fixed, especially as far as the 'test' and 'libhtdig' directories are 
concerned. I will post some specific messages afterwards anyway - as they 
are not *urgent*.

    Please let me know if everything is ok, especially under Mac OSX which 
I haven't been able to test.

Ciao and thanks,
-Gabriele
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Gabriele Bartolini: Web Programmer, ht://Dig & IWA/HWG Member, ht://Check 
maintainer
Current Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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