Why should ./configure -l?

[cicku]

Hi,

I'm packaging prwd into Fedora but now when configure I found that it doesn't support the standard...

• ./configure --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info Target platform... --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu

Sorry but '--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' is currently unsupported, you can attemp 'bsd' or 'linux' as target and cross your fingers. In order to do that you just need to give either one as parameter to ./configure. You can get the official list of supported platform with ./configure -l

Will you consider an enhancement?

Thanks.

[tamentis]

This is not a standard autoconf ./configure script. I'll find myself a tutorial on autoconf and I'll see what I can do ;)

[tamentis]

Alright, can you try with the latest git pushes, I converted the old school configure/Makefiles to autoconf. It's ugly, it's slow, but if that makes packager's life easier, why not.

[cicku]

• ./configure --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking build system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu checking for i686-redhat-linux-gnu-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... none checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking bitstring.h usability... no checking bitstring.h presence... no checking for bitstring.h... no checking dirent.h usability... yes checking dirent.h presence... yes checking for dirent.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes checking libutil.h usability... no checking libutil.h presence... no checking for libutil.h... no checking ndir.h usability... no checking ndir.h presence... no checking for ndir.h... no checking paths.h usability... yes checking paths.h presence... yes checking for paths.h... yes checking pty.h usability... yes checking pty.h presence... yes checking for pty.h... yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes checking sys/dir.h usability... yes checking sys/dir.h presence... yes checking for sys/dir.h... yes checking sys/ndir.h usability... no checking sys/ndir.h presence... no checking for sys/ndir.h... no checking sys/tree.h usability... no checking sys/tree.h presence... no checking for sys/tree.h... no checking term.h usability... yes checking term.h presence... yes checking for term.h... yes checking util.h usability... no checking util.h presence... no checking for util.h... no checking for gcc that whines about -I... yes checking for glibc... yes checking for CMSG_DATA... yes checking for strlcpy... no checking for getopt... yes checking whether optarg is declared... yes checking whether optind is declared... yes checking whether optreset is declared... no checking for bzero... yes checking for dirfd... yes checking for setproctitle... no checking for sysconf... yes checking for BSD-style unsigned types... yes checking whether TAILQ_PREV is declared... yes checking whether TAILQ_REPLACE is declared... no checking for __progname... yes checking whether F_CLOSEM is declared... no checking for /proc/$$... yes checking platform... linux configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: executing depfiles commands configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: executing depfiles commands
• make CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /home/rpmaker/rpmbuild/BUILD/prwd-master/etc/missing --run aclocal-1.11 /home/rpmaker/rpmbuild/BUILD/prwd-master/etc/missing: line 52: aclocal-1.11: command not found WARNING: aclocal-1.11' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modifiedacinclude.m4' or configure.ac'. You might want to install theAutomake' and Perl' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. cd . && /bin/sh /home/rpmaker/rpmbuild/BUILD/prwd-master/etc/missing --run automake-1.11 --foreign /home/rpmaker/rpmbuild/BUILD/prwd-master/etc/missing: line 52: automake-1.11: command not found WARNING:automake-1.11' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified Makefile.am',acinclude.m4' or configure.ac'. You might want to install theAutomake' and `Perl' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /home/rpmaker/rpmbuild/BUILD/prwd-master/etc/missing --run autoconf configure.ac:19: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:30: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O configure.ac:60: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL

[tamentis]

I'm going to throw it out there, but many softwares are using their own configure/make, like Redis for example. I'm sure Fedora has a mode for such packages. All you need to do is run ./configure without parameters and it will do the right thing.

[tamentis]

Alright, I stripped all the autoconf automake stuff and had the ./configure script respond accordingly to the flags you mentioned above. Can you give it a shot (latest git push)?