Fwd: I can't get libgloss build system to agree with me

[Leo Singer <doc dot aronnax at gmail dot com>]

Ooops!  Meant to send this to the mailing list.


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From:  <doc.aronnax@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: I can't get libgloss build system to agree with me
To: Karolina Lindqvist <karolina.lindqvist@kramnet.se>


In the readme file it says that you have to pass two -I parameters to
"aclocal". Did you try that?

Leo

On Feb 5, 2009 8:11am, Karolina Lindqvist <karolina.lindqvist@kramnet.se> wrote:
> I have been struggling for hours, but I just can't get the autoconf/automake
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> build system to work in libgloss, as I need to add my own a new cpu.
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> Here is a sample run, with an unmodified newlib-1,.17.0 tree:
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> newlib-1.17.0/libgloss$ aclocal -I ..
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> newlib-1.17.0/libgloss$ autoconf
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> configure.in:27: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS
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>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
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>      See the Autoconf documentation.
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> newlib-1.17.0/libgloss$
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> What is this? AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS is a system macro.
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> As this did not work, let's try something else. Now in the libgloss/frv
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> subdirectory, since I based my new cpu directory in it.
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> (the newlib tree is reinitialized from tar file)
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> newlib-1.17.0/libgloss/frv$ aclocal -I ../..
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> newlib-1.17.0/libgloss/frv$ autoconf
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> newlib-1.17.0/libgloss/frv$ automake
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> configure.in:18: required directory ./$libgloss_topdir does not exist
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> configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
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> configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
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> configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
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> configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
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> configure.in:20: required file `$libgloss_topdir/config.guess' not found
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> configure.in:20:   `automake --add-missing' can install `config.guess'
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> configure.in:20: required file `$libgloss_topdir/config.sub' not found
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> configure.in:20:   `automake --add-missing' can install `config.sub'
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> configure.in:23: required file `$libgloss_topdir/install-sh' not found
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> configure.in:23:   `automake --add-missing' can install `install-sh'
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> automake: no `Makefile.am' found for any configure output
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> newlib-1.17.0/libgloss/frv$
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> That did no work either. More confusing error messages.
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> Ok, the final attempt, let's do it from the base directory.
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> newlib-1.17.0$ aclocal -I .
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> configure.ac:26: error: Please use exactly Autoconf 2.59 instead of 2.63.
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> config/override.m4:24: _GCC_AUTOCONF_VERSION_CHECK is expanded from...
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> configure.ac:26: the top level
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> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
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> aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
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> newlib-1.17.0$
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> No, I don't want to use Autoconf 2.59, since my linux system has, and depends
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> on autoconf 2.63.  Downgrading is not an option.
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> This was an impossible road also obviously.
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>
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> How should I make it work?
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> I have tried all kinds of variations, but any attempt to regenerate
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> configure/Makefile gives some kind of error message.
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> I can build newlib, by jumping directly to the newlib-1.17.0/newlib directory.
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> Rebuilding with aclocal/autoconf/automake works there, exactly as expected
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> and without errors.  There I can add  my machine directory to
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> newlib/libc/machine. It is the base directory and libgloss that does not work
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> for me. Not for building newlib either.
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> What to do?
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>
> Karolina
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