SVN compile error

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed May 17 14:29:46 EDT 2006


Quoting Sigve Indregard <sigve.indregard at gmail.com>:

> Ah, that worked. Added
> ${top_builddir}/src/engine/libgncmod-engine.la to LDADD
> in src/import-export/test/Makefile.am (patch attached).

Thanks...  I'll get that into SVN shortly..

[snip]
> The 1.9.6 distribution seems to do the right thing, but I can't figure
> out why. The Makefiles in the test directories are equal in all relevant
> aspects.
>
> The svn dir is make distclean; svn up; make distclean; ./autoconf.sh;
> ./configure; make
> The 1.9.6 dir is ./configure; make
>
> I see that the distributed Makefile is made with automake 1.9.6, while I
> have automake 1.9.5 on my system. Don't think that should make much
> difference, though...

The difference is that the 1.9.6 distribution was built from a working
libtool, so the ltmain.sh included in the tarball is a non-broken version.
Whereas people who compile from SVN on debian will use the debian libtool
and therefore break.

-derek
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