Isn't the point about autoconf that the user should not have to run it,
or even have it installed? Only the package creator should have to care
about autoconf versions, surely, or else it is pointless.
cheers
andrew
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> Also, which port of autoconf are you using? We're still stuck at 2.59,
> so if you are using the newer port available in FreeBSD, you may be
> being bitten by that as well ...
>
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> strk@refractions.net writes:
>>
>>> I'm having troubles building postgis HEAD on freebsd
>>> using the new autoconf-based scripts.
>>
>>
>> FreeBSD which, exactly? It makes a difference, because AFAICS from
>> configure newer versions of FreeBSD use ELF, and the link switches
>> are different then.
>>
>>> The Makefile.shlib file copied by pgsql sources
>>> adds a -Bforcearchive flag to LINK.shared with
>>> arch is freebsd, but the flag seems to be
>>> unsupported (this is from 7.2.1 to 8.0.0)
>>
>>
>>> Weird enough PostgreSQL build works fine
>>> (no -Bforcearchive flag used)
>>
>>
>> You need to figure out why the applied switches are different for your
>> build than for the main build --- they really should not be. Are you
>> sure you're picking up the same copy of Makefile.global?
>>
>> regards, tom lane
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