Re: [Ocaml-tmk-devel] version 1.0.3 build procedure?

[Paul Pelzl]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Chet Murthy <address@hidden> wrote:
> (1) I inferred from this that one must run configure
>
> (2) and there is a configure.ac, which I guess I can process with
> autoconf to produce configure
>
> (3) The problem is, configure then blows up, b/c there's no
> config.h.in
>
> I'm not sufficiently well-versed in the use of the GNU auto* toolset,
> to know how to produce that config.h.in.

You can run "autoheader" to generate a config.h.in .  I can build the
library using the following sequence:
$ autoheader
$ autoconf
$ make byte    # bytecode lib
$ make opt    # native lib


> If there were a standard procedure, it might be useful to document it
> in a README.

Yes, some documentation would be good.  And it would also be good if
the release tarball did not depend on autotools.

Paul