Re: compilation problems

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Paul Jarc <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have the headers for flex (among other things) in a nonstandard
> place, so I put the necessary -I flags in $CPPFLAGS.  Some parts of
> the build process don't seem to notice $CPPFLAGS, though.  This is
> needed for configure to find FlexLexer.h:
>
> --- aclocal.m4~ 2008-07-24 23:33:34.000000000 -0400
> +++ aclocal.m4  2008-07-24 23:33:59.000000000 -0400
> @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@
>  using namespace std;
>  #include <FlexLexer.h>
>  EOF
> -       FLEXLEXER_FILE=`$CXX -E conftest.cc | \
> +       FLEXLEXER_FILE=`eval $ac_cpp conftest.cc | \

why is the eval there?

>          sed 's!# 1 "\(.*FlexLexer.h\)"address@hidden@\1@@!g' | grep
>          '@@' | \
>          sed 'address@hidden@\(.*\)@@.*$!\1!g' ` 1> /dev/null 2>
>          /dev/null
>        rm conftest.cc
>
> Later, compiling includable-lexer.cc fails, because $CPPFLAGS is only
> used for C compilation, not C++, so FlexLexer.h isn't found at that
> point.  "./configure --help" doesn't mention CXXCPPFLAGS, so I used
> this patch:
>
> --- c++-vars.make~      2008-08-05 10:41:57.000000000 -0400
> +++ c++-vars.make       2008-08-05 10:42:28.000000000 -0400
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>  #EXTRA_CXXFLAGS += -Werror
>  #endif
>
> -ALL_CXXPPFLAGS = $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES:%=-I%)
> +ALL_CXXPPFLAGS = $(CPPFLAGS) $(CONFIG_CPPFLAGS) $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES:%=-I%)
>  ALL_CXXFLAGS = $(CXXFLAGS) $(ALL_CXXPPFLAGS) $($(PACKAGE)_CXXFLAGS) 
> $(CONFIG_CXXFLAGS) $(MODULE_CXXFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CXXFLAGS)
>

This looks good; can you package everything in a git patch? That makes
our lives a little easier.

> That got me farther along, but the build still ends in an error, and I
> don't understand this one:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory 
> `/fs/pkgs/mount/package/host/code.dogmap.org/foreign/lilypond-2.11.52+spf+1/compile/src/lilypond-2.11.52/mf'
> MFINPUTS=. mf -progname=mf "\mode:=laserjet; nonstopmode; input feta11.mf;"
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base
> I can't find the base file `mf.base'!
> make[1]: *** [out/feta11.log] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/fs/pkgs/mount/package/host/code.dogmap.org/foreign/lilypond-2.11.52+spf+1/compile/src/lilypond-2.11.52/mf'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I installed texlive from source, but I'm not familiar with managing
> it.  Does mf.base belong to lilypond or texlive, and how is it
> normally created?

Sorry, I don't know this one either.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen