FYI.
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From: Frank Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sep 18, 2006 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: findutils 4.2.28 compilation fails on Solaris 9
To: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James,
I have found a way to get findutils-4.2.28 to compile under Solaris 8.
Why this changed from 4.2.27 apparently involves some configure voodoo
which I will do my best to explain. Please forgive me if some of this
seems pedantic to you, but I want to be explicit since I am copying
Zube as well.
First let me remind you that the error I am seeing is:
gcc -g -O2 -o find find.o fstype.o parser.o pred.o tree.o util.o
version.o ../lib/libfind.a ../gnulib/lib/libgnulib.a
/usr/local/lib/libintl.so -lc -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
parser.o: In function `insert_regex':
/home/fbaird/bld/findutils-4.2.28/find/parser.c:1500: undefined
reference to `re_set_syntax'
/home/fbaird/bld/findutils-4.2.28/find/parser.c:1501: undefined
reference to `re_compile_pattern'
pred.o: In function `pred_regex':
/home/fbaird/bld/findutils-4.2.28/find/pred.c:1316: undefined
reference to `re_match'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Basically, the problem is that ../gnulib/lib/libgnulib.a does not
include regex.o. This regex is a "special" version which varies from
the regex supplied by Solaris or even gnu regex.
The first step to compilation is to edit configure.in to uncomment the
line (that is, remove "dnl")
gl_INCLUDED_REGEX([gnulib/lib/regex.c])
This is an autoconf macro in findutils-4.2.28/gnulib/m4/regex.m4 which
apparently creates code at configure time for the regex functions.
Wow.
Then one must do a ./configure to generate the Makefiles, then do a
make. This make will run automake and autoconf to generate a new
configure (provided of course, you have automake and autoconf
installed. If not, I guess you're just hosed.) It then runs this new
configure with none of the options you might want, then starts to
make. Even though I have the latest gettext (0.15) installed, this
fails with the following error:
gcc -g -O2 -o regexprops regexprops.o regextype.o
../gnulib/lib/libgnulib.a
../gnulib/lib/libgnulib.a(quotearg.o): In function `gettext_quote':
/home/fbaird/bld/findutils-4.2.28/gnulib/lib/quotearg.c:168: undefined
reference to `libintl_gettext'
../gnulib/lib/libgnulib.a(xalloc-die.o): In function `xalloc_die':
/home/fbaird/bld/findutils-4.2.28/gnulib/lib/xalloc-die.c:38:
undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I'm not sure why this is happening, but quite honestly, I only need
English, so I usually configure with --disable-nls anyway. So I went
back and reconfigured with
./configure --disable-nls; make
Same error, which is really, really odd. So
make clean; make
Now it works! I've not run any tests, so I'm not absolutely positive
if everything's ok, but it seems to me it should be.
So in trying to figure out why this happens, I compared the output of
./configure --help
from the two versions and discovered that
--without-included-regex
don't compile regex; this is the default on systems
with recent-enough versions of the GNU C Library
(use with caution on other systems)
is present in 4.2.27, but has been removed from 4.2.28. After looking
a bit more, I realized the --with-included-regex option was removed as
well. I'm not sure how recent "recent-enough" is, but I am using the
latest version available to me. I am using the latest version of the
gcc branch available to me (3.4.6). I cannot go to a higher version
because we have been developing a custom program for three years not
using 3.4.X, and it would be too risky to go to another version level.
I hope that for Solaris users, you will restore the included-regex
stuff. This may affect other OSes as well. Or perhaps there is some
better way. Please let me know.
Thanks,
Frank
----- Original Message ----
From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Frank Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 7:11:39 AM
Subject: Re: findutils 4.2.28 compilation fails on Solaris 9
On 9/15/06, Frank Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am having the exact same problem with Sol 8 and gcc 3.4.6. Did you ever
give a fix to Zube?
No, since I have no access to Solaris.
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