Re: Jade 1.2 available

[Louis-Dominique Dubeau <ldd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> - configure/autoconf support from Cees de Groot (see README.configure);
> this should make it easier to install on Unix boxes (don't forget to use
> unzip -a).

I've tried to build it yesterday and found multiple problems with the
new configure system:

- ./configure ./config/config.sub ./config/config.guess are all packed without
  the execute flag set.  (I wondered if zip is unable to deal with this but
  I made tried it and was able to zip and unzip correctly a file with the 
  execute flag set.)  I guess the zip is created on a Windows system where
  such flags are inexistent.  The end result is that on a Unix system, you
  have to run chmod u+x on those three files.

- ./configure --enable-http 
  ./configure --enable-http --enable-shared 
  ./configure --enable-http --disable-shared --enable-static

  Any of those commands produce files that are erroneous.  Runing make
  after one of those configuration commands results in make failing
  when it tries to link nsgmls.  (It basically complains that a bunch
  of symbols are missing and there is no "-l" argument in the linking
  command.)  My system is a Red Hat Linux 4.2 distribution.  My guess is 
  that libtool is not working properly.  I don't have time right now to 
  look into this problem deeper but I'd be curious to know about other 
  successes and failures in using ./configure.

I reverted to the old build method and everything went fine.

	Regards,
	ldd


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