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

[Caleb E. <cal...@gm...>]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:56:29 +0200, Joerg Thoennes
<joe...@ma...> wrote:

> Of course, this adds another step to the installation of QF and requires
>   some assistance in the installation of autoconf tools (e.g. on
> Solaris), but in the end this is the way autoconf is meant to work.

I'd highly recommend AGAINST doing this.  Its another barrier to entry
for people to get started with QuickFIX and goes against the grain of
just about any other open source project you're liable to run across. 
They all ship a generated "configure".

> Caleb, could you give autoconf a try?

Done.  It didn't help.  Autoconf  2.58 does not detect that "CC" needs
to be used instead of "ar" when generating the libtool script.

I think this stems from the fact that these tools (autoconf etc) are
used largely with C programs and the C++ support is less mature and
more folks are using them on Linux or other systems where gcc is used
than on Solaris with SunPRO.

Anyhow, seeing as one needs to specify CC and CXX, specifying AR isn't
too much to ask.

-- 
Caleb Epstein
cal...@gm...