Re: [Simulavr-devel] why I hate autotools

[Joel Sherrill]

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> On Tue Jul  7  9:10 , 'address@hidden' <address@hidden> sent:
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> > On Tue Jul  7  8:51 , ThomasK  sent:
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> > > You have appended Makefile.am from root directory. But to compile your 
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> > Arrrg. I grabbed the wrong Makefile.am .
> > I'll have to get home to find the right one.
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> I'm home.
> I've attached src/Makefile.am and the result of
> cvs diff -c in the root.
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The Makefile.am has "atmega668*".  I thought you were
implementing atmega88 and a atmega168.  Is that a typo.

The other changes are independent.  Text changes.  static
to dynamic libbfd.  
> ./bootstrap -c didn't help.
> I've also attached the result of ./bootstrap .
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Ahh what host OS are you on?  This appears to
be an issue with autoconf 2.62.  I am on Fedora 10
and have 2.63 which must have fixed this.

Other projects have had users encounter this.  I found
this URL: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/ticket/20
> I took a quick look at this. Looks like autoconf-2.62 expects cached 
> variables to be of a certain format. All these variables are within 
> MPE. Is it just a matter of renaming these variables?
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> If this is simple enough, we should try to fix it for 1.1a2.
I would update the autoconf version.  Even if you have
to install it in a private location just for your use.
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