RE: Inight 6.1 build problems

["Backhaus Willy" <w dot backhaus at newage-avkseg dot com>]

hello,

I installed cygwin, gcc and autoconf again, I applied the patch and now the
Insight 6.1 works :)

thanks.

Willy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Seitz [mailto:keiths@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 6:04 PM
> To: Backhaus Willy
> Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Inight 6.1 build problems
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 08:54, Backhaus Willy wrote:
> > > Very good! That patch will definitely be necessary. So what
> > > happens with
> > > the build? Did you regenerate the toplevel configure?
> Does it just not
> > > create the insight executable? What about a gdb executable?
> >
> > the gdb was build and calling gdb with the -w switch has no effect..
>
> Please be explicit: did you regenerate configure after apply
> the patch?
> If you did not regenerate configure, the patch will have no
> effect. [To
> regenerate configure, run "autoconf" in the directory containing the
> patched configure.in file, i.e, src/.]
>
> > > As for the snapshot...
> > > > ----
> > > > checking for c++... c++
> > > > checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -g -O2 ) works... no
> > > > configure: error: installation or configuration problem:
> > > C++ compiler cannot
> > > > cre
> > > > ate executables.
> > > > make: *** [configure-dejagnu] Error 1
> > > > make: Leaving directory `/tmp/build/gdb'
> > >
> > > As you indicate, it appears that your compiler
> installation is hosed.
> > > Can you compile a simple "hello-world"-like application
> in c and c++?
> > > You might try reinstalling gcc in your cygwin configuration (?).
> >
> > I reinstalled gcc but it didn't help and I can build other
> executables (like
> > gdb in the previous configuration).
>
> Gdb does not use c++. Do you have g++ installed? [Can you
> build a simple
> helloworld executable in c++?]
>
> In any case, dejagnu and expect are not required for the build. You
> could erase src/expect and src/dejagnu from your sources and
> reconfigure
> and rebuild. You won't be able to test anything, though.
>
> Keith
>
>