[Flac-dev] Altivec, automake

[Josh Coalson]

--- Brady Patterson <brady at spaceship.com> wrote:
> Smooth build on my pbook (G4, 10.2.8, gcc-3.3, ac-2.59, am-1.6.3).
> Only problem
> was lack of check for docbook-to-man; my patch is attachments 1-2.
> 
> Not so smooth on my imac (G3, 10.2.8, gcc-3.3, ac-2.52, am-1.6.1;
> that's what
> came with the last 10.2-compatible dev tools). First problem: typo in
> doc/Makefile.am; my patch is attachment 3.

thanks, checked in.

> Then configure doesn't check for inttypes.h, causing a compile error
> as soon as
> ordinals.h:50. I imagine this is due to that antique version of
> autoconf, but I
> figured I'd mention it to make sure.

OK.  not sure when when the check came in. looks like ac-2.52
was 3yrs ago.

> And to segue me into this. I think it would be handy (especially for
> ac/am
> newbies) if something like autogen.sh contained:
> -a tip about the -I option to aclocal
> -a note about xmms; the only way I know to run aclocal without it is
> to comment-
> out the AM_PATH_XMMS line in configure.in
> -version suggestions for autoconf, automake, and anything else needed
> to
> generate configure (libtool?)
> 
> I would write that up, but I don't know the answers to the last
> question, and
> I could be missing something on xmms.

OK, I checked in the additions.

> My pbook is still making check, but so far so good. I'll get back to
> you if
> anything goes wrong.

yeah, it does take a while!  and running it in valgrind takes
days.

Josh



		
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