[369] in bug-owl
Re: recursive configure failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Daniel)
Fri Jan 28 13:54:11 2005
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:54:07 -0500
From: Jeremy Daniel <jdanielmit@gmail.com>
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I looked at the problem further. It seems that since I had LIBS set
before I ran configure it was causing it to be passed down. More
specifically this causes the problem:
tcsh> env LIBS=-Llib ./configure
but this doesn't:
tcsh> ./configure --libdir `pwd`/lib
Something about the configure file changed to cause this behaviour
though, because I'd been using the earlier version for a long time up
until last month.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:30:19 -0500, Jeremy Daniel <jdanielmit@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Resending this with more detail since I didn't realize bug-owl@mit
> doesn't forward to bug-owl@ktools]
>
> Kretch,
>
> configure runs fine for me until it hits the recursive section, at
> which point it fails with the following output because the LIBS that
> was generated for owl is being used for libfaim.
>
> configure: running /bin/bash './configure' --prefix=/usr/local
> 'CFLAGS=-Iinclude' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
> C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> configure: error: /bin/bash './configure' failed for libfaim
>
> I have put the config.log files for the original output in
> /mit/jdaniel/Public/owl.
>
> This change seems to fix my problem. I'm still not sure why LIBS was
> being carried over into the recursive configure. If you can make any
> further sense out of it please let me know.
>
> Index: configure
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /mit/ktools/src/owl/repository/owl/configure,v
> retrieving revision 1.20
> diff -u -r1.20 configure
> --- configure 30 Dec 2004 20:38:59 -0000 1.20
> +++ configure 28 Jan 2005 17:13:41 -0000
> @@ -5492,7 +5492,7 @@
> if test "$no_recursion" != yes; then
>
> # Remove --cache-file and --srcdir arguments so they do not pile up.
> - ac_sub_configure_args=
> + ac_sub_configure_args=LIBS=
> --
> Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@mit.edu>
> 26 Pearl St
> Medford, MA 02155
>
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Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@mit.edu>
26 Pearl St
Medford, MA 02155
