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Hi Karl,
Of possible interest to GNULIB maintainers, running the
../gnulib/gnulib-tool --update
command from the hello-2.1.91 directory on a Solaris 9 box yeilds a
syntax error:
../gnulib/gnulib-tool: syntax error at line 634: `}' unexpected
Using
/bin/bash ../gnulib/gnulib-tool --update
does not generate the error. This is for gnulib-tool revision 1.137.
I am more of a novice when it comes to GNULIB setup, but I'll give you
some of my feedback below.
Hmmm... It might be nice if there were some kind of a readme that talks
about the non-default location of the m4 directory being in gnulib/m4
instead of m4 ... although I guess as long as aclocal.m4 exists I dont'
really need needing an 'autoreconf --include=gnulib/m4' as I will get
the same warnings
% autoreconf
aclocal:gnulib/m4/gettext.m4:418: warning: macro `AM_LANGINFO_CODESET' not
found in library
% autoreconf --version
autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
%
The big modification to the Makefile.in files when I do the autoreconf
is that the $(top_srcdir)/gnulib/m4/strerror_r.m4 is removed from all of
the am__aclocal_m4_deps macros.
[I will happily note that the problem no longer exists in the CVS
repository for hello.]
Given that you are using non-default directories of
--m4-base=gnulib/m4 --source-base=gnulib/lib
doing a '../gnulib/gnulib-tool --update' is not going to do the right
thing with a missing gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4 file and it appears that
bash ../gnulib/gnulib-tool --update --m4-base=gnulib/m4 --source-base=gnulib/lib
will complain that I really need to use 'gnulib --import' which is
somewhat anoying...
% ../gnulib/gnulib-tool --import --m4-base=gnulib/m4 --source-base=gnulib/lib
Module list with included dependencies:
File list:
lib/dummy.c
Copying file gnulib/lib/dummy.c
Copying file gnulib/m4/gnulib-tool.m4
Updating gnulib/lib/Makefile.am (backup in gnulib/lib/Makefile.am~)
Creating gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
Updating gnulib/m4/gnulib-comp.m4 (backup in gnulib/m4/gnulib-comp.m4~)
Finished.
You may need to add #include directives for the following .h files.
Don't forget to
- add "gnulib/lib/Makefile" to AC_CONFIG_FILES in ./configure.ac,
- mention "lib" in SUBDIRS in gnulib/Makefile.am,
- mention "-I gnulib/m4" in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am,
- invoke gl_EARLY in ./configure.ac, right after AC_PROG_CC,
- invoke gl_INIT in ./configure.ac.
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Hmmm... the gnulib-tool template output assumes that a gnulib/Makefile.am
file should exist... I wonder if that is really needed?
If I didn't pay close attention to my lib and m4 directory locations and
used '../gnulib/gnulib-tool --update' it generates odd contents in a new
lib and m4 directories:
bash-2.05$ ls gnulib/lib lib
gnulib/lib:
Makefile.am close-stream.h exit.h getopt_.h stdbool_.h
Makefile.in closeout.c exitfail.c getopt_int.h xalloc-die.c
__fpending.c closeout.h exitfail.h gettext.h xalloc.h
__fpending.h error.c getopt.c quotearg.c xmalloc.c
close-stream.c error.h getopt1.c quotearg.h
lib:
Makefile.am dummy.c
bash-2.05$ ls gnulib/m4 m4
gnulib/m4:
close-stream.m4 getopt.m4 lib-link.m4 nls.m4 strerror_r.m4
closeout.m4 gettext.m4 lib-prefix.m4 po.m4 unistd_h.m4
error.m4 gnulib-comp.m4 lock.m4 progtest.m4 xalloc.m4
exitfail.m4 iconv.m4 mbrtowc.m4 quotearg.m4
fpending.m4 lib-ld.m4 mbstate_t.m4 stdbool.m4
m4:
gnulib-cache.m4 gnulib-comp.m4 gnulib-tool.m4
bash-2.05$
Looking at the CVS project...
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/hello co hello
The hello/README.dev file does mention the use of --m4-base and
- --source-base and tells users to use 'gnulib-tool --import' ... however,
doing a '--update' should probably be mentioned. Given that we do have a
gnulib-cache.m4 file, live is much better for doing an update.
bash-2.05$ bash ../gnulib/gnulib-tool --update
Module list with included dependencies:
close-stream
closeout
error
exit
exitfail
fpending
getopt
gettext
gettext-h
havelib
quotearg
stdbool
unistd
xalloc
xalloc-die
File list:
build-aux/config.rpath
lib/__fpending.c
lib/__fpending.h
lib/close-stream.c
lib/close-stream.h
lib/closeout.c
lib/closeout.h
lib/error.c
lib/error.h
lib/exit.h
lib/exitfail.c
lib/exitfail.h
lib/getopt.c
lib/getopt1.c
lib/getopt_.h
lib/getopt_int.h
lib/gettext.h
lib/quotearg.c
lib/quotearg.h
lib/stdbool_.h
lib/xalloc-die.c
lib/xalloc.h
lib/xmalloc.c
m4/close-stream.m4
m4/closeout.m4
m4/codeset.m4
m4/error.m4
m4/exitfail.m4
m4/fpending.m4
m4/getopt.m4
m4/gettext.m4
m4/glibc2.m4
m4/glibc21.m4
m4/iconv.m4
m4/intdiv0.m4
m4/intmax.m4
m4/inttypes-h.m4
m4/inttypes-pri.m4
m4/inttypes_h.m4
m4/lcmessage.m4
m4/lib-ld.m4
m4/lib-link.m4
m4/lib-prefix.m4
m4/lock.m4
m4/longdouble.m4
m4/longlong.m4
m4/mbrtowc.m4
m4/mbstate_t.m4
m4/nls.m4
m4/po.m4
m4/printf-posix.m4
m4/progtest.m4
m4/quotearg.m4
m4/signed.m4
m4/size_max.m4
m4/stdbool.m4
m4/stdint_h.m4
m4/strerror_r.m4
m4/uintmax_t.m4
m4/ulonglong.m4
m4/unistd_h.m4
m4/visibility.m4
m4/wchar_t.m4
m4/wint_t.m4
m4/xalloc.m4
m4/xsize.m4
Finished.
You may need to add #include directives for the following .h files.
#include <getopt.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include "__fpending.h"
#include "close-stream.h"
#include "closeout.h"
#include "error.h"
#include "exit.h"
#include "exitfail.h"
#include "gettext.h"
#include "quotearg.h"
#include "xalloc.h"
Don't forget to
- add "gnulib/lib/Makefile" to AC_CONFIG_FILES in ./configure.ac,
- mention "lib" in SUBDIRS in gnulib/Makefile.am,
- mention "-I gnulib/m4" in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am,
- invoke gl_EARLY in ./configure.ac, right after AC_PROG_CC,
- invoke gl_INIT in ./configure.ac.
bash-2.05$
So, about the only thing I think really might want to be part of some
readme somewhere is that gnulib/lib and gnulib/m4 are non-default
locations for the current gnulib-tool given that the
hello-2.1.91/gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4 file is not being distributed.
Enjoy!
-- Mark
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