On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
I think I may have (finally, after several wrong turns) figured out
what's wrong with cross-compilation: we're not calling
AC_CANONICAL_TARGET any more (this was commented out in rev 25232).
...presumably because it somehow caused problems with getting automake
to have the Makefile create ustar tarballs by default:
$ svn log configure.in
...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r25232 | gerald | 2008-05-05 10:03:22 -0700 (Mon, 05 May 2008) | 3
lines
Have autoconf generate "ustar" tar files by default. This should let
us have
paths longer than 99 characters.
...
and
$ svn diff -r25231:25232 configure.in | more
Index: configure.in
===================================================================
--- configure.in (revision 25231)
+++ configure.in (revision 25232)
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
# $Id$
#
-AC_INIT(cfile.h)
-
AC_PREREQ(2.52)
dnl Check for CPU / vendor / OS
@@ -12,9 +10,10 @@
dnl AC_CANONICAL_HOST
dnl AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
-AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
+dnl AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(wireshark, 1.0.99)
+AC_INIT(wireshark, 1.0.99)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tar-ustar)
AM_DISABLE_STATIC
Just un-commenting it breaks things, so can you try to see if it works
with configure.in starting like this:
Gerald? What was the problem that made you comment those out? Does
moving the AC_CANONICAL_TARGET call after AC_INIT fix them?
(Also, Wireshark isn't a compiler, linker, assembler, or other build
tool, so I don't think we need to worry about Canadian Cross builds;
I'm not sure whether that means that we should remove
AC_CANONICAL_TARGET and un-comment AC_CANONICAL_BUILD and
AC_CANONICAL_HOST or not. The autoconf documentation says, in the
Obsolete Macros section:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Obsolete-Macros
that running AC_CANONICAL_TARGET is sufficient to run the other macros:
— Macro: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
Determine the system type and set output variables to the names of
the canonical system types. See Canonicalizing, for details about the
variables this macro sets.
The user is encouraged to use either AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, or
AC_CANONICAL_HOST, or AC_CANONICAL_TARGET, depending on the needs.
Using AC_CANONICAL_TARGET is enough to run the two other macros (see
Canonicalizing).
although it doesn't say that in the Canonicalizing section, so I don't
know whether that's a formal commitment or not.)