[Quickfix-developers] Building Quickfix from CVS

[Dale W. <wil...@oc...>]

Hi,

I've run into a snag trying to build Quickfix in our development 
environment.

QuickFIX version 1.9.4
OS:  SunOS 5.9
Compiler & toos: gcc 3.2.1, autoconf 2.59

If I pull the tar.gz file, expand it, and follow the instructions in the 
installation doc (i.e. run configure then make) it builds fine.

However, for the project I am working on we want to store the third 
party suport libraries in in our CVS repository.  Among other things 
this lets us do automated  pull, build, and test from the repository 
based on a single tag.   QuickFIX, of course, is one of those third 
party libraries.

When I import QuickFIX into our cvs repository I run afoul of the 
.cvsignores that are in the distribution.  In particular .cvsignore at 
the QUICKFIX_ROOT level ignores Makefile (that makes sense).  However it 
also ignores configure, Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, and several other files 
which are needed to generate the Makefile.  That means when I pull it 
back out of CVS the instructions from the installation doc no longer work..

It appears that the missing files are created by autoconfig.  Are there 
instructions anywhere for building QuickFIX from what gets stored in the 
CVS repository?  I don't (yet) have any experience with autoconfig, but 
I'm willing to learn.

Thanks,

Dale

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