I need some help using autotools- autoconf etc.

ih8censorship · 06-18-2008, 02:18 PM

I've been trying to set up my project to use autotools and i can't seem to figure it out. I have my original makefile here which works to compile and link on my machine, and i have my attempt at using autotools I think the problem is all the examples i'm seeing are for simple projects, but i did succeed this morning in checking for various boost library and C++ features. I'm still having trouble creating a configure file that actually generates a makefile that comes even close to working. Anyone have an idea what i'm doing wrong here?

iwasapenguin · 06-22-2008, 02:41 AM

...Do you really need autotools?
type info make at the command line and dabble in a little lite shell scripting and you should have something very effective.

knudfl · 06-25-2008, 01:50 PM

From LX'er about autotools :
1) http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/..._gnu_autotools
2) http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/...with_autotools
3) http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/..._with_autoconf
And I made a test on your files 6 days ago, from my notes :

Quote:

In fact your setup is "almost" working. From the files I can see
I will start with 'aclocal' then 'automake'

'automake' will ask for some missing files and a directory "config".
'mkdir config' + some empty textfiles will do.
(config/depcomp install-sh missing) and
(src/config.h.in)
Might be different with your autotools version.

Then run 'automake' again and it will generate 'autogen.sh' as
required in 'Makefile.in'.
Then run './autogen.sh' to produce 'configure' : 3845 lines (my result)

Then it should be possible to get './configure' to write a Makefile.
It doesn't, there are some errors :
configure: line 2443: AC_CXX_EXCEPTIONS: command not found
configure: line 2444: AC_CXX_BOOL: command not found
configure: line 2445: AC_CXX_HAVE_STL: command not found
configure: line 2446: AC_CXX_HAVE_STD: command not found

By your method (autoconf) you just have another "set" of errors.

May be not very useful, just another "identifier" to find where it went wrong.

Rgds