Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Configuring the source code.

[Brendan L. <bm...@ri...>]

Hi Haris et. al.


>> What am I still not getting right?
>
> I'm at work on a windows box right now, so I can't test it, but I
> think the problem with the above is an extra "-".  To pass the short
> form of options to autoreconf, the single letter is prefixed by just
> "-", e.g.:
>
> autoreconf -vi
>
> The long form of the options uses "--", e.g.:
>
> autoreconf --verbose --install

Yup. "autoreconf -vif" is short for "autoreconf --verbose --install
--force" whereas "autoreconf --vif" makes the program think you're
trying to pass a single option called vif, which doesn't make any
sense.

I'm with Tim on this one. CMake is much nicer to use, especially for
quick private builds such as yours.

> Two other things:
> 1. Until recently, there was a bug in configure.ac that caused
> autoreconf to fail, with an error message "Unrecognized macro:
> AC_CHECK_LIB", but if you just ran autoreconf a second time,
> everything worked.  However that is fixed in the latest git sources.

Awesome! What was the problem?

--Brendan (who now, apparently, has autoconf on the brain)