Re: WG: [Swarm-Support] Compiling swarm-2.1.148.20040122

[Bill Northcott]

On 24/03/2004, at 6:19 AM, Scott Christley wrote:
> The test for setting OBJC is very simple, it just looks someting like 
> this:
>
> test -n "$OBJC" || OBJC="$CC"
>
> Now I do see that there is a bug fix related to this code commited 
> back around Feb. 15, so I wonder if maybe your source code is older.  
> Anyways, I think you can work around the problem by defining OBJC 
> yourself when calling configure.
Scott is right about this, and has fingered the problem.  The code was 
patched by me on Jan 21 to allow it to build with recent versions of 
autoconf.  Some obsolete constructs had to be removed.

Unfortunately I got the order wrong and the patch would only work 
correctly if CC was defined.  Marcus noticed this and fixed it on 
February 15.

The code Giovanni is using was taken from the CVS on Jan 22.  So it 
will only work correctly if CC is defined.  The current CVS code should 
work correctly without CC being defined.

Bill Northcott