Re: [Quickfix-developers] Build Quickfix with Sun SPRO compiler 6.2 or 8.0

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

I don't agree with this.  Generated files are distributed with the=20
releases, but I don't know of any that are checked into the repository.=20=

  If you know of some, make a list and we'll have them removed.

Autotools generate a portable configure script so everyone knows they=20
can do a simple './configure && make' and get a reasonable build.  This=20=

is pretty standard and expected behavior for open source distributions.=20=

  I don't know what the value of adding additional dependencies would be=20=

for people who have no desire to modify the build scripts.

--oren

On Sep 13, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Joerg Thoennes wrote:

> Caleb Epstein wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:21:22 -0500, Oren Miller=20
>> <or...@qu...> wrote:
>>> As for the AR_FLAGS, I would expect that autoconf would be doing =
that
>>> work in the AC_PROG_CXX macro.  What version are you using?  Maybe a
>> I'm not using autoconf at all, just the supplied configure script =
that
>> comes with QuickFIX.
>
> I feel there is some ambiguity in the QF setup: On the one site, there=20=

> are autoconf files, but one the other side, pre-build conf files are=20=

> supplied (and even checked-in into the repository).
>
> IMHO, the most stable solution would be to drop the autoconf-generated=20=

> files altogether and let the users generate them in any case using the=20=

> bootstrap script. They have to do that step anyway if there is any=20
> problem with the pre-built config files.
>
> Of course, this adds another step to the installation of QF and=20
> requires  some assistance in the installation of autoconf tools (e.g.=20=

> on Solaris), but in the end this is the way autoconf is meant to work.
>
> Caleb, could you give autoconf a try?
>
> Cheers, J=F6rg
>
> --=20
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