--- Michael Ekstrand <mekstran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 12:41 -0700, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > I can try, but I'm definitely missing the point, which is: > > > > * 'make' CAN detect that it's GNU libiconv; > > * 'configure' can NOT detect that it's GNU libiconv > > 'make' does not detect that it is GNU libiconv. 'make' does not detect > anything. The file that is being compiled does a little consistency > check - it makes sure that the type of iconv header it has is consistent > with the type of iconv that configure said it is supposed to be building > with. 'configure' does try to detect the type of iconv. It evidently > determined that your system had a non-GNU (native) iconv. But when the > actual compilation happened, it went "whoops, this isn't supposed to be > a GNU iconv header.... we have problems." It looks like your iconv > library and the iconv header that the compiler finds don't match, most > likely. Either that, or there's something else weird with your iconv & > build setups. > > > So, what is the point in having such a configure script - 'configure' > > is supposed to detect such things. > > Things like this are what configure options are for - to guide configure > along when it doesn't make the right choice. It is neither practical > nor, in many cases, possible for configure to provide a 100% guarantee > that its success will imply a successful 'make'. It is not intended for > it to provide such a guarantee. It merely tries to configure the > software and sets up the Makefiles - if it couldn't make sense of your > setup, it may not create appropriate Makefiles. It can't detect every > possible contingency. It did reasonable checks to see which iconv your > system has, and then that turned out to be inconsistent. > > In this case, it may be practical to add a test. That's up to the GTK+ > devs. But in general, asking configure to detect every possible 'make' > problem is essentially asking it to try to compile the program. That's > make's job. And you only want to run 'make' once. > > - Michael > > -- > Michael Ekstrand > Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory > Goanna, compute cluster and InfiniBand network monitor tool: > http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/Monitor/ > > In simple and short English - why can't 'configure' have the same check as the one that causes "But when the actual compilation happened, it went "whoops, this isn't supposed to be a GNU iconv header.... we have problems." " ? And regarding the way 'configure' at all functions - here is the command line using which it is called: " build.pl :INFO: executing ==> cd /maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/build/glib-2.12.12; PATH=/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/gettext-0.16.1/bin:/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/libiconv-1.11/bin:/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/pkg-config-0.21/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/home/sergei/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/home/sergei/bin; export PATH; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/gettext-0.16.1/lib:/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/libiconv-1.11/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:/opt/kde3/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/share/pkgconfig; export PKG_CONFIG_PATH; LDFLAGS='-L/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/gettext-0.16.1/lib -L/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/libiconv-1.11/lib'; export LDFLAGS; CPPFLAGS='-I/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/gettext-0.16.1/include -I/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/libiconv-1.11/include'; export CPPFLAGS; ./configure --prefix=/maxtor5/sergei/AppsFromScratchWD/install/glib-2.12.12 --with-libiconv=gnu 1>configure.log 2>&1 " - please pay attention that paths to libiconv-1.11 are present in the command line. So, why do I have to also give '--with-libiconv=gnu' on command line to make 'make' work ? (yes, with '--with-libiconv=gnu' 'make' is OK). Regards, Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
