Status of 6.3.2 snapshot on alpha/Digital Unix

Started by Pedro J. Loboabout 28 years ago4 messageshackers
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#1Pedro J. Lobo
pjlobo@euitt.upm.es

Hi, all.

I've just compiled the latest 6.3.2 snapshot on Digital Unix 3.2g using
DEC's C compiler. The regression tests look good, so go ahead with the
release (at least for this platform).

However, there are two minor "errors". One of them is already known:
configure fails when --with-compiler is specified. Included is a patch to
the configure script. I know that this is not the right file to patch,
since it is generated from configure.in, but we can use it as a workaround
since the error lies in autoconf. The patch should be re-applied every
time autoconf is run.

The second "error" is a new one. The configure script no longer asks for
additional include and lib directories, so, for example, it doesn't find
my readline libs, installed under /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib.
Since these are two common directories to have additional software
installed into, I have added them to src/templates/alpha. Attached is a
patch to make this change. It won't hurt even if the directories don't
exist.

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parche.configuretext/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name=parche.configureDownload+2-2
#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Pedro J. Lobo (#1)
Re: [HACKERS] Status of 6.3.2 snapshot on alpha/Digital Unix

The second "error" is a new one. The configure script no longer asks for
additional include and lib directories, so, for example, it doesn't find
my readline libs, installed under /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib.
Since these are two common directories to have additional software
installed into, I have added them to src/templates/alpha. Attached is a
patch to make this change. It won't hurt even if the directories don't
exist.

We have new -with-includes -with-libraries options.

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#3The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Pedro J. Lobo (#1)
Re: [HACKERS] Status of 6.3.2 snapshot on alpha/Digital Unix

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Pedro J. Lobo wrote:

Hi, all.

I've just compiled the latest 6.3.2 snapshot on Digital Unix 3.2g using
DEC's C compiler. The regression tests look good, so go ahead with the
release (at least for this platform).

However, there are two minor "errors". One of them is already known:
configure fails when --with-compiler is specified. Included is a patch to
the configure script. I know that this is not the right file to patch,
since it is generated from configure.in, but we can use it as a workaround
since the error lies in autoconf. The patch should be re-applied every
time autoconf is run.

Any idea if a patch is possible for autoconf itself?

The second "error" is a new one. The configure script no longer asks for
additional include and lib directories, so, for example, it doesn't find
my readline libs, installed under /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib.
Since these are two common directories to have additional software
installed into, I have added them to src/templates/alpha. Attached is a
patch to make this change. It won't hurt even if the directories don't
exist.

./configure --help should list both a '--with-includes=' and
'--with-libraries=' option :)

#4The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Pedro J. Lobo (#1)
Re: [HACKERS] Status of 6.3.2 snapshot on alpha/Digital Unix

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Pedro J. Lobo wrote:

However, there are two minor "errors". One of them is already known:
configure fails when --with-compiler is specified. Included is a patch to
the configure script. I know that this is not the right file to patch,
since it is generated from configure.in, but we can use it as a workaround
since the error lies in autoconf. The patch should be re-applied every
time autoconf is run.

I was just thinking about it, and wasn't the solution under
Solaris to actually define CC=cc in that OSs template file..??

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org