Re: [xine-devel] xine CVS compiling test

[Bastien N. <ha...@ha...>]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:48, Stephen Torri wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 04:55, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the system is a RH7.3. I try to compile the current xine CVS.
> > I have installed the gcc-3.0.4 upgrade from RH7.2 and this is what I
> > have in  ~/.bashrc:
> > 
> > alias CC='gcc3'
> > export CC=gcc3
> 
> 3.0 and 3.1 for gcc are known to be buggy. If you feel that you must
> have the 3.x series from gcc look at rawhide.redhat.com for the gcc-3.2.
> Otherwise use gcc-2.96 provided by RH 7.3
> 
> > I did these in order to be able to compile:
> > 
> > [zozo@catv-50622120 xine-lib]$  aclocal-1.5
> > [zozo@catv-50622120 xine-lib]$  automake-1.5 -a -c -f
> > [zozo@catv-50622120 xine-lib]$  autoconf-2.53
> > 
> > I did these because running ./cvscompile.sh does not work, e.g.
> > it requires  that  automake is version 1.5, but it is 1.4.
> > RH 7.3 has these but with version suffixes, as seen above.
> 
> It is the expectation that the user will have the gnu tools installed
> with no modification to their name. For example, automake instead of
> automake-1.5. This naming convention is a RedHat issue. Consider finding
> a more recent version of automake and remove automake15 from the system.

Huh, no. The latest version of aclocal and automake are versioned
(1.4p6, and all the greater versions). If you require automake-1.5, you
need to put automake-1.5 in the cvscompile.sh script, not "automake".

Same applies to autoconf.

Cheers

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