Re: gtk-peer compile fixes for gcc-2.95

[Archie Cobbs <archie at dellroad dot org>]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > Not sure what you're saying, but please don't break building with gcc-2.95.
> 
> Aha! OK, then in the end you will like my patch (even if you don't like
> the c compiler flags that I currently use for it). Since the reason I
> went through all the trouble was because I noticed the build was broken
> for gcc-2.95. What I want to achieve with the new setup is that we
> easily find out about such issues even when we use "modern" gcc-3.x. The
> -ansi -std=c89 -pedantic setup almost makes sure this is the case,
> except for the fact that we need longlong support (so we add
> -Wno-long-long) which is also supported with gcc-2.95 and we need access
> to "modern" POSIX/GNU/BSD networking/file funtions like ftruncate and
> fsync which are available on almost any system we care about (and when
> they aren't out auto* setup should make sure the functions that do
> depend on those features do work anyway (with less functionality of
> course).

Great! Then I'm all for it :-)

> > It's because of "sinclude $(JAVA_DEPEND)" in lib/Makefile.am. This is
> > not an automake command so it passes through unmodified. Unfortunately
> > there's no workaround that I know of (automake doesn't have a generic
> > include function).
> 
> Could you supply a patch for INSTALL that documents this?

Done.. see attached.

Thanks,
-Archie

__________________________________________________________________________
Archie Cobbs      *        CTO, Awarix        *      http://www.awarix.com

Index: ChangeLog
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RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/ChangeLog,v
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diff -u -r1.2005 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog	9 Apr 2004 15:02:21 -0000	1.2005
+++ ChangeLog	9 Apr 2004 16:03:25 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-03-25  Archie Cobbs  <archie@dellroad.org>
+
+	* INSTALL: Document GNU make requirement for building.
+
 2004-04-09  Dalibor Topic  <robilad@kaffe.org>
 
 	* java/lang/SecurityManager.java: (checkAccess): Use getThreadGroup().
Index: INSTALL
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RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 INSTALL
--- INSTALL	27 Jan 2004 22:00:42 -0000	1.17
+++ INSTALL	9 Apr 2004 16:03:25 -0000
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
 Suggested Software
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
+	GNU make ("gmake") is required for building Classpath.
+
 	For any build environment involving native libraries, these 
 	new versions of autoconf, automake, and libtool are required
         if changes are made that require rebuilding configure, Makefile.in,
@@ -55,10 +57,10 @@
   --enable-load-library   enable to use JNI native methods default=yes
                           (disabled automatically using --enable-cni)
 
-2).  Type "make" to build the package.  There is no longer a
+2).  Type "gmake" to build the package.  There is no longer a
 dependency problem and we aim to keep it that way.
 
-3).  Type "make install" to install everything.  This may require
+3).  Type "gmake install" to install everything.  This may require
 being the superuser. The default install path is /usr/local/classpath
 you may change it by giving configure the --prefix=<path> option.