Has anyone got any words of wisdom for Dennis?

David


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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:03:04 +0100 (BST)
From: Dennis Kelly <[log in to unmask]>
To: David Berry <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]>, Andy Gibb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: more on building

Dear David,

I found a more recent version of Perl on Solaris and put it at the front
of the path. I then got the following:-


alba> ./bootstrap
m4 at /home/bdk/albadir/local-star/buildsupport/bin/m4 is OK
Bootstrapping with
    STARCONF_DEFAULT_STARLINK  = /home/bdk/albadir/local-star
    STARCONF_DEFAULT_PREFIX    = /home/bdk/albadir/local-star
    BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX        = /home/bdk/albadir/local-star/buildsupport
    Do we need to build GNU m4?  false
Bootstrapping buildsupport:
    make -f Makefile.tmp \
        prefix=/home/bdk/albadir/local-star/buildsupport \
        MANIFEST=/home/bdk/albadir/local-star/manifests \
        buildsupport
cd thirdparty/fsf/autoconf \
    && if test -n "$BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX"; then \
        ./configure --prefix=$BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX \
            >configure-output.log; \
    elif test ! -f Makefile; then \
        { t="Directory unconfigured but BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX undefined";\
          echo $t >configure-output.log; echo $t >&2; \
          exit 1; }; \
    else \
        echo "No configuration necessary" >configure-output.log; \
    fi \
  && (make && make install) >make.log 2>make.log.err  || { cat
make.log.err; false; }
cd thirdparty/fsf/libtool \
    && if test -n "$BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX"; then \
        ./configure --prefix=$BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX \
            >configure-output.log; \
    elif test ! -f Makefile; then \
        { t="Directory unconfigured but BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX undefined";\
          echo $t >configure-output.log; echo $t >&2; \
          exit 1; }; \
    else \
        echo "No configuration necessary" >configure-output.log; \
    fi \
  && (make && make install) >make.log 2>make.log.err  || { cat
make.log.err; false; }
f77: Warning: Option -print-search-dirs passed to ld, if ld is invoked,
ignored otherwise
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
main                                /opt/SUNWspro/WS6U2/lib/crt1.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to a.out
configure: WARNING: Could not find Fortran module file extension.
f77: Warning: Option -print-search-dirs passed to ld, if ld is invoked,
ignored otherwise
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
main                                /opt/SUNWspro/WS6U2/lib/crt1.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to a.out
cd thirdparty/fsf/automake \
    && if test -n "$BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX"; then \
        ./configure --prefix=$BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX \
            >configure-output.log; \
    elif test ! -f Makefile; then \
        { t="Directory unconfigured but BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX undefined";\
          echo $t >configure-output.log; echo $t >&2; \
          exit 1; }; \
    else \
        echo "No configuration necessary" >configure-output.log; \
    fi \
  && (make && make install) >make.log 2>make.log.err  || { cat
make.log.err; false; }
cd buildsupport/starconf && autoreconf --install --symlink
Not enough arguments for mkdir at
/home/bdk/albadir/local-star/buildsupport/bin/autoreconf line 490, near
"$aux_dir
        or"
Execution of /home/bdk/albadir/local-star/buildsupport/bin/autoreconf
aborted due to compilation errors.
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target
`buildsupport/starconf/configure'
Failed to make buildsupport


cheers,
       Dennis