Re: [Quickfix-developers] Building Quickfix from CVS

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

Joerg Thoennes wrote:

> QuickFIX Documentation:=20
> http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX FAQ: http://www.quickfixengine.org/wikifix/index.php?QuickFixF=
AQ
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>
>> To do a build from the repository, you would need to first run the=20
>> bootstrap script.  Those files are generated by autotools, and=20
>> different versions will generate them differently, which is why we do=20
>> not keep them checked in.
>>
>> After running the bootstrap script, you can then follow the standard=20
>> build instructions.  You will need to have autotools installed which=20
>> is an additional dependency on top of the normal ones.
>
>
> Oren, could you post the versions of the autotools you use to produce=20
> the generated Makefiles in the release? This could be important for Dal=
e.

Thanks Joerg,

Indeed having a list of required tools and versions would help.  As it=20
is I'm discovering the tools missing from this system one at a time=20
(just ran into libtoolize)  With luck I've almost stumbled my way there..=
.

Dale

>
> On my Linux box, I had the situation that the distributed Makefiles=20
> work, but the ones generated using autotools do not. There was some=20
> change with the treatment of the CPPFLAGS; I do not remember exactly.=20
> I tracked this down to the fact that autotools version (automake 1.4=20
> and autoconf 2.13) generated the files in another way than the tools=20
> used to generate the distributed files.
>
> Cheers, J=F6rg
>


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