From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon May 4 21:45:28 1998 Subject: Re: Install bug? From: Chuck Robey To: "John W. Eaton" cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 21:44:31 -0400 (EDT) On Mon, 4 May 1998, John W. Eaton wrote: > On 4-May-1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > > | I needed to make a couple of changes to get things working. First, it > | found, via uname, that I run FreeBSD(current, version 3.0), but > | FreeBSD-3.0 is not among those numbers that you search for > | automatically, so it rejects building shared libraries on a platform > | that has always been using them. I changed the configuration arguments > | so that --host=i386-unknown-freebsd is added as a configuration flag, > | but it would be better to change the configuration script so that it > | seeks FreeBSD-* instead of a version number. > > I don't understand what configuration file is at fault. In > configure.in, I look at > > case "$canonical_host_type" in > *-*-386bsd* | *-*-openbsd* | *-*-netbsd* | *-*-freebsd*) > > If you mean that config.guess or config.sub is doing the wrong thing, > can you explain exactly what needs to be fixed? What does > config.guess return on your system so that it doesn't match the above > pattern? You're right ... I did an evil thing, I assumed it was still the correct bug. Something is refusing to build shared libs (according to the output of configure) unless I toss in that and --enable-shared. The last is usually a default, so I _assumed_ it couldn't be the trouble, and simply tossed it in (as a flag) as being generally good practice. Oh, I see. It's not a default. Never seen that before. Sorry, that was my fault. Port is complete now, thanks. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr at glue dot umd dot edu| | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------