[OpenJade-devel] Is CVS building possible?

[Syd B. <Syd...@br...>]

First, is there a openjade-user list? I doubt whether I qualify as a
developer. While I did port SGMLS to VM/370, that was over a decade
ago, and I've never touched SP nor OpenSP, not suprising as I do not
even speak C++. Just so you can aim responses at the correct exper-
tise level, I should admit up front that I haven't written any C code
since that SGMLS port, and have never written a Makefile or such.

So, on to the problem. I'd like the most recent version of OpenSP, in
particular a version of osx that supports -xpreserve-case. Running on
a freshly updated Debian 3.0 "stable" (I think) system running gcc
2.95.4 (on which OpenSP 1.5 built just fine), I was unable to build
OpenSP yanked from CVS earlier today.

* aclocal seemed to work fine
* autoheader produced lots of warnings, but nothing that looked
  fatal. [1]
* automake --add-missing complained of two missing files. [2]
* autoconf did not like LIBOBJS, whatever that is. [3]
* ./configure (with --prefix=, --enable-http, and
  --enable-default-catalog= specified) seemed to work fine.
* make compiled quite a few files, but then had an error. [4]

It looked like the error was in the HTTP support. While I would very
much like HTTP support, I've lived without it for many years, and I
really need -xpreserve-case, so ...

* ./configure with the same paths, but without --enable-http seemed
  to work fine.
* make got much further this time (looks to this amateur like it may
  have finished compiling everything), but still ended with an error.
  [5] 

Now, that said, it seems that the osx wrapper that was generated
(./sx/osx) actually does do the right thing (call a version of sx
that supports -xcase-preserve). Nonetheless, it really ought to build
properly, I should think; and I really would like HTTP support. I
have not yet tried "make install", as I'm not sure that it will do
the right thing given that "make" didn't end nicely.


output excerpts
====== ========
[1] --------- (502) emt ~/OpenSP @ 11:10:06 ->autoheader
WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.

WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
WARNING: `acconfig.h':

WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])

WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
WARNING: documentation.
autoheader2.50: `config.h.in' is created

[2] --------- (503) emt ~/OpenSP @ 11:10:28 ->automake --add-missing
automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
configure.in: 423: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found
automake: Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found

[3] --------- (504) emt ~/OpenSP @ 11:10:41 ->autoconf
configure.in:266: error: do not use LIBOBJS directly, use AC_LIBOBJ
                  (see section `AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS'

[4] --------- Last 8 lines of output:
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I../generic -g -O2
    -Wp,-MD,.deps/URLStorage.pp -c URLStorage.cxx  -fPIC -DPIC -o
    .libs/URLStorage.lo 
URLStorage.cxx: In method `enum OpenSP::HTTP_RESPONSE_TYPE
                OpenSP::HttpSocketStorageObject::open(const
                OpenSP::String<char> &, short unsigned int, const
                OpenSP::String<char> &, OpenSP::Messenger &, char
                *)':
URLStorage.cxx:572: parse error before `;'
make[2]: *** [URLStorage.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/syd/OpenSP/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/syd/OpenSP'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

[5] --------- Last 17 lines of output:
cat-id-tbl.c changed
cd . && rm -f stamp-cat-id && echo timestamp > stamp-cat-id
file=./`echo de | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file de.po
de.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                Message conversion to user's charset might not work.
file=./`echo ja | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ja.po
file=./`echo sv | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file sv.po
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/syd/OpenSP/po'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/syd/OpenSP'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `ChangeLog', needed by `all-am'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/syd/OpenSP'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/syd/OpenSP'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2