Open TurtleWilly opened 10 months ago
It's definitely confusing, but it's meant to specify a path to the xmlrpc-c-config
binary, which will allow the build process to automatically generate the correct CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. You can see this here: https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/blob/master/scripts/checks.m4#L398
I do have xmlrpc-c in a custom path (not in any of the standard system include/lib paths), so I need to manually specify its location via configure.
configure --help
suggest that the--with-xmlrpc-c
parameter supports giving the PATH as an argument. That doesn't seem to work and always comes out asCould not compile XMLRPC-C test.
In fact only using
--with-xmlrpc-c=yes
, and manually extending the PATH like this seemed to work for me: