[Spread-users] [PATCH] autoconf build missing aclocal.m4

[Jonathan Stanton]

Hi Daniel,

Actually this macro is included. There is a "buildtools" subdirectory of 
the "daemon" directory that has all of the autoconf support files. The 
main source directory only has "*.in" and "*.h" files for autoconf 
support.

To rebuild the configure script you need to run:

autoconf -I buildtools

If you add new header defines you may also need to run 
autoheader -I buildtools

So I do not think adding this to the main daemon directory is needed. Your 
copy of the macro is nicer since it is properly indented so I will replace 
the current buildtools/aclocal.m4  with your version.

Cheers,

Jonathan

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 07:07:49PM -0700, Daniel Rall wrote:
> Part of Theo's original patch [1] to change the build system to 
> autoconf-based is missing from CVS!  Without it, I get errors like the 
> following when trying to generate a configure script (on a RedHat 9 Linux 
> box):
> 
> dlr at despot:daemon$ autoconf
> configure.in:81: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PTHREAD_FREEBSD
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> 
> Attached is it as a properly indented autoconf defun which should be 
> commited to CVS as spread/daemon/aclocal.m4.  Though the same result can be 
> achieved by inlining this defun into configure.in, this local macros file 
> appears to be picked up automatically by autoconf, and seems to be the more 
> idiomatic way of doing things.
> 
> [1] 
> http://lists.spread.org/pipermail/spread-users/2002-September/001029.html

> dnl FreeBSD -pthread check - Jonathan McDowell
> AC_DEFUN(AC_PTHREAD_FREEBSD,
>          [AC_MSG_CHECKING([if we need -pthread for threads])
>           AC_CACHE_VAL(ac_ldflag_pthread,
>                        [ac_save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
>                         LDFLAGS="-pthread $LDFLAGS"
>                         AC_TRY_LINK([char pthread_create();],
>                                     pthread_create();,
>                                     eval "ac_ldflag_pthread=yes",
>                                     eval "ac_ldflag_pthread=no"),
>                                     LIBS="$ac_save_LDFLAGS"
>                        ])
>           if eval "test \"`echo $ac_ldflag_pthread`\" = yes"; then
>             AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
>           else
>             AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
>           fi
>          ])


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