Re: Jade 1.2 available

[apharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Adam P. Harris)]

Louis-Dominique Dubeau <ldd@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I've tried to build it yesterday and found multiple problems with the
> new configure system:

> - ./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.

Well, first off, Cees de Goot, not James Clark, is responsible for the
autoconf/libtool system.  So pester Cees, not James.

Secondly, you need Cees autoconf patch 1, at least.  Cees was
maintaining fixes for that system at
<URL:http://www.sgmltools.org/jade.html>, which is dead right now.
However, I do have patch 1, which I've temporarily put up at
<URL:http://master.debian.org/~aph/jade-1.2-patch1.diff.gz>.  Note
that the patch won't apply right on some of the RCS variables; just
ignore that (it's Cees', not mine!)

I've managed to build using the autoconf/libtool system (like so:
'CFLAGS="-O2 --pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 --pipe" ./configure --prefix=/usr
--enable-http --enable-static --enable-shared
--enable-default-catalog=/usr/lib/sgml/catalog:/usr/local/lib/sgml/catalog
--enable-default-search-path=/usr/lib/sgml:/usr/local/lib/sgml').

Seems to work fine but I haven't tested it too much.

.....A. P. Harris...apharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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