Re: [Xenomai] xenomai-3/next is out of sync with regards to automake/autoconf...

[Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@control.lth.se>]

On 2014-12-10 09:35, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> On 2014-12-09 20:23, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:25:50PM +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
>>> On 2014-12-09 16:33, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 04:32:10PM +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
>>>>> On 2014-12-09 16:26, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 04:19:49PM +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2014-12-09 13:43, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 12:47:24PM +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
>>>>>>>>> ...which leads to rtnet utils not being properly built. I think
>>>>>>>>> the following is needed:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> autoconf
>>>>>>>>> automake
>>>>>>>>> git add configure utils/Makefile.in utils/net/Makefile.in
>>>>>>>>> git commit
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oops. My fault. I did not commit the changes, because I do not have
>>>>>>>> the same versions of the autotools as Philippe, so the commit would
>>>>>>>> have changed all files (and at the time, I even had to comment out
>>>>>>>> some code in configure.ac to get my autotools to work, but this
>>>>>>>> issue has been resolved since then). But I forgot to tell Philippe
>>>>>>>> to bootstrap.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Note that if you do not want to think about what commands you should
>>>>>>>> run, you should use autoreconf. autoreconf is the reason why the
>>>>>>>> "bootstrap" script was removed.
>>>>>>> Figured that out after I sent the mail :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I wonder if as long as Xenomai 3 is in its development stage, it
>>>>>>>> would not make sense to remove the autotools file from the
>>>>>>>> repository and ask the users who want to use the repository to run
>>>>>>>> autoreconf before compiling. I do not know if it will seem
>>>>>>>> acceptable to those who work from the repository.
>>>>>>> Make total sense to me, would be nice with a command that does 
>>>>>>> something like (to simplify packaging):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # XENO=$(git describe --tags | sed -e 's/v/xenomai-/') 
>>>>>>> # git archive --prefix $XENO/ HEAD -o $XENO.tar
>>>>>>> # tar -rf $XENO.tar all autoreconfed files
>>>>>>> # xz $XENO.tar
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is wrong with the packages generated by cgit?
>>>>> Probably nothing, except that they (probably) don't contain
>>>>> the files generated by autoreconf, I can of course put that into
>>>>> the packaging scripts (rpm spec files).
>>>>
>>>> Yes, if you can. I mean, a lot of build system are doing that
>>>> already anyway.
>>> OK, sorry for the noise...
>>
>> Actually, that was an answer to the question I asked: do users prefer
>> to have the generated files in the git, and your answer is yes.
> May I retract that answer to a no?, having autogenerated that are out of
> sync is far worse then having to make an occasional autoreconf. I have
> adjusted my buildfiles to reflect this new (?) opinion.

And now having problems on fedora21, probaly due to newer automake...

# autoreconf ; automake --version ; autoreconf --version
configure.ac:76: error: required file 'config/compile' not found
configure.ac:76:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'
lib/boilerplate/Makefile.am:37: warning: source file 'iniparser/dictionary.c' is in a subdirectory,
lib/boilerplate/Makefile.am:37: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
automake: warning: possible forward-incompatibility.
automake: At least a source file is in a subdirectory, but the 'subdir-objects'
automake: automake option hasn't been enabled.  For now, the corresponding output
automake: object file(s) will be placed in the top-level directory.  However,
automake: this behaviour will change in future Automake versions: they will
automake: unconditionally cause object files to be placed in the same subdirectory
automake: of the corresponding sources.
automake: You are advised to start using 'subdir-objects' option throughout your
automake: project, to avoid future incompatibilities.
lib/boilerplate/Makefile.am:37: warning: source file 'iniparser/iniparser.c' is in a subdirectory,
lib/boilerplate/Makefile.am:37: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
lib/boilerplate/Makefile.am:56: warning: source file 'tlsf/tlsf.c' is in a subdirectory,
lib/boilerplate/Makefile.am:56: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
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