Re: svn configure probs

CC-ing Robert, as he wrote the new buildsys; he's the one you should ask
(not sure if he's on this list)

Cheers,
 Marc

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 22:36 -0800, C Leonhardt wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> Seems the configure script from svn is forcing a static binary build,
> despite using --enable-shared and --disable-static. I put some "echo"
> lines in the configure script to see what's going on, and despite the
> flags being recognized earlier in the config process, near the end it
> still forces static compile.
>
> Here's the bit of script that seems to be the problem:
>
> #define XP_UNIX_TARGET_GTK 1
> _ACEOF
>
> echo "TEST RESULT dynamic - $enable_dynamic static - $enable_static"
> # build static binary by default
> if test "$enable_dynamic" == "no" && \
> test "$enable_static" == "no"; then
> enable_dynamic="no"
> enable_static="yes"
> fi
> fi
>
> My little "echo" line there shows both $enable_dynamic and enable_static
> as being set to no. I don't see anywhere earlier in the script where these
> vars are set. I changed the lines after 'then' to make it enable a dynamic
> build by default. Shouldn't the default be to build a dynamic bin anyway?
>
>
> Also, something is screwy when trying to enable plugins. "configure
> --help" doesn't show --enable-default-plugins as an option; passing
> --enable-default-plugins doesn't enable them (unless I'm mistaken and the
> "default" plugin list is very short); and, there's no errors being shown
> if there are errors when trying to enable the plugins. The only plugin
> shown at the end of configure was opendocument. Seems like all the others
> were skipped, with no indication of any errors, nothing in the config.log
> either. I also tried --enable-plugins (with no other params.)
>
> I spoke to "hub" on irc tonight who mentioned there's some option to get
> configure to be more verbose and show the errors but neither of us know
> what it is. If I use --enable-plugins="list of plugins" then I get error
> messages for each of the plugins.
>
> It would make sense if --enable-plugins assumed "all" if the list was
> empty. It should show error messages along the way if something is missing
> while trying to enable a specific plugin, at the very least.
>
> Just seems like the configure script from svn needs a little cleaning up.
>
> This is on a slackware v12 linux i686 platform, using svn from 2-23-08.
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Received on Mon Feb 25 00:01:00 2008