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Hello, |
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>On 06/19/2012 04:40 PM, walt wrote: |
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>> I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For |
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>> reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers |
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>> that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, |
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>> libbonobo and libbonoboui. |
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>> I edited the autoconf.in to check for those standard libraries, |
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>> and it did partly work. The generated makefiles now have correct |
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>> entries like LIBBONOBO_CFLAGS. |
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>> The problem is that those flags are never used during the compile |
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>> phase. So, anyone know how make that extra step happen? |
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Adjust Makefile.am / .in to actually use $(LIBBONOBO_CFLAGS) in those |
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rules (or all if unsure) where they are needed. |
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Have a look in the info documentation of automake/autoconf, esp. at |
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the samples. |
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>(no, nobody really understands autotools) |
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I do. It's just m4 generating shell-scripts (plus some other easily |
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understood bits) from templates. And all is quite well documented. |
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Next, you'll tell us cmake/qmake/smake/scons/bjam etc.pp. ad nauseam |
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are better understood and documented and what you have to do to adjust |
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stuff like above. Yeah sure. |
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I've been building stuff for 11+ years now, most for a 99'ish |
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platform. In and after say '05 until '10. Believe me, I had to adjust |
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stuff a lot. And autotools was _BY FAR_ always the easiest to do so, |
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almost always just set/export a variable for configure and |
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*tada*. Adjusting min-version of autoconf/-make to my "too old" |
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version and running autoreconf was occasionally needed. |
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Sure, if requirements for a lib weren't met, the stuff wouldn't build, |
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but not because of the autotools or their generated makefiles, but |
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just because the lib would not fit. |
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No such luck with the other build-systems. With some of above |
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mentioned "build-systems" you have to adjust _system_ files to get |
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them to DTRT. BTDT. |
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With the autotools, you could alternatively just use |
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CFLAGS += $(pkg-config --cflags libbonobo-2.0) |
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LDFLAGS += $(pkg-config --libs libbonobo-2.0) |
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in your Makefile or the corresponding CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $(...)" in an |
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ebuild or .spec or debian/rules or whatever. Piece of cake. |
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(and the same for -activation if needed). |
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-dnh |
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-- |
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> Noooo.... Not "She offered her honor, he honored her offer"? |
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...and so all evening he was honour and offer. -- known |
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