Re: running autoconf/make instructions for newlib

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

Ken Werner wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 June 2009 11:03:17 pm Joel Sherrill wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found that I asked this about 6 years ago
> > about how to do this and got this info
> > for running it on a libc/machine/XXX directory
> >
> > aclocal -I ../../..     # the -I ../../.. points to the top-level newlib
> > dir autoconf
> > automake --cygnus Makefile
> >
> > I tried dropping the ../../.. to ../..
> > and did the same thing in libc/machine
> > but the builds ends with:
> >
> > checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> > ../../../../../gcc-4.3.3/newlib/libc/machine/configure: line 3949:
> > _LT_DECL_SED: command not found
> > configure: updating cache ../.././config.cache
> > configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined.
> > Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
> > configure: error: ../../../../../gcc-4.3.3/newlib/libc/machine/configure
> > failed for machine
> > configure: error: ../../../../gcc-4.3.3/newlib/libc/configure failed for
> > libc
> >
> > Did I miss a step that is different in the libc/machine
> > directory?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >     
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> You need to include the top level directory (src) as well. For the SPU target 
> that would be:
>   cd src/newlib/libc/machine/spu
>   aclocal -I ../../.. -I ../../../..
>   autoconf
>   automake-1.9 --cygnus Makefile
>   
Thank you.  That worked.

Just to note.  The aclocal has to be 1.9 also and automake
needed to be >= 1.9.5 from the 1.9 series.

> Ken
>   


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