bugPSPP - Bugs: bug #28959, configuration checks need attention

 
 

bug #28959: configuration checks need attention

Submitter:  Harry Thijssen <unknown_one>
Submitted:  Sun 21 Feb 2010 03:28:28 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Compilation/Portability Severity:  5 - Average
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Effort:  0.00
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Thu 01 Jul 2010 03:03:06 PM UTC, comment #7: 


>Can this item be closed now?

I believe that all the specific problems have been addressed, so I'm closing this bug.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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Thu 01 Jul 2010 02:28:25 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Can this item be closed now?

John Darrington <jmd>
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Wed 10 Mar 2010 04:14:17 AM UTC, comment #5: 


>On the build machine, glib2-devel is needed for glib-genmarshal.
>This is not found by configure.


OK.  I added a "configure" check for glib-genmarshal.  Thank you for the rpot.  Please let me know if you find other problems.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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Tue 02 Mar 2010 09:21:30 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I found 1 again:

On the build machine, glib2-devel is needed for glib-genmarshal. This is not found by configure.

 

Harry Thijssen <unknown_one>
Tue 23 Feb 2010 12:56:18 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Harry Thijssen writes:

>The correct names seem to be "build" and "host" systems.


Yes.

>On my PC I have a openSUSE  build-system and a MinGW host-system
>which is installed in /usr/i686-pc-mingw32.
>Have a look at http://mingw-cross.sourceforge.net/hello_autotools.html
>"Building for MinGW".


Yes, I know how to configure an Autoconf-based project for cross-compiling.  Often it works just fine "out of the box".

What I don't see here is an actual bug report.  What does PSPP do wrong?  Can you be specific?

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Group administrator
Mon 22 Feb 2010 05:25:14 PM UTC, comment #2: 

From Harry Thijssen in email:


The correct names seem to be "build" and "host" systems.
On my PC I have a openSUSE  build-system and a MinGW host-system which
is installed in /usr/i686-pc-mingw32.
Have a look at http://mingw-cross.sourceforge.net/hello_autotools.html
"Building for MinGW".

I guess there is a separation of build en host envrionment needed and
the right environment should be checked. If no host system is
specified, the build system is the host system.

But changing the current situation seems a lot of work and there are
not much people enjoying the result yet. However if you wan't to
change it, I can check it on my system to see if I get some errors. If
you do'nt cross-compile you won't see a difference as build=host.


Ben Pfaff <blp>
Group administrator
Sun 21 Feb 2010 09:07:49 PM UTC, comment #1: 


>For instance readln is needed on the target, but the system
>doesn't complain if it is on the local machine but not on the
>target.


How can the build system know what is on the target machine?  I don't understand what you expect the build system to do here.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Group administrator
Sun 21 Feb 2010 03:28:28 PM UTC, original submission:  


While configuring for building PSPP the system doesn't check the right packages for cross-compiling. When cross-compiling there is a difference between the situation on the local machine and the target machine. This seems not to be handled that way. For instance readln is needed on the target, but the system doesn't complain if it is on the local  machine but not on the target.

Perl is needed on the local machine but is not reported as a problem, but this might be an unrelated issue.

I guess this report is a lot of work and solving it won't make much people happy. So consider this as a reminder.

Harry Thijssen <unknown_one>

 

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