Re: zsh compilation problem with autoconf git

[Ismail Dönmez]

Tuesday 29 January 2008 09:09:36 tarihinde Ralf Wildenhues şunları yazmıştı:
> Hello Ismail,
>
> * Ismail Dönmez wrote on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:43:03AM CET:
> > I lost many night's sleep on this without success so I hope people with
> > more autoconf wisdom can help me.
>
> I wouldn't spend so much time on a problem that could be a user problem
> without asking people.  That causes frustration.  Next time consider
> asking earlier.

Thanks.

> > How to reproduce
> >
> > Get latest autoconf git if you already didn't.
> >
> > # Clone zsh repo
> > git clone git://git.pardus.org.tr/zsh
> >
> > # create configure
> > cd zsh
> > autoheader
> > autoconf
> > ./configure
> >
> > now if you cd Src/Modules and type make you will see that it won't build
> > anything and just exit with success. If you try building with
> > autoconf-2.61a it successfully builds Modules.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated because I am totally lost.
>
> If I do the above sequence with git master of Autoconf, then
>   cd Src/Modules
>   make
>
> will provoke an error as you say, because Src/Modules/Makefile does not
> exist.  However, if I do the same with Autoconf 2.61a, the exact same
> thing happens.
>
> What you need to do is run
>   cd Src
>   make
>
> (or just "make prep" should suffice) beforehand, because the Makefile in
> Src will cause the generation of the Makefile in Src/Modules.

I did the same and here is what I get :

[/packages/zsh/Src/Modules]> make
[/packages/zsh/Src/Modules]>

ie. it doesn't compile any modules again. I did run make prep in Src.

Regards,
ismail

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