On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 5:17 PM Richard Sharpe
<realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When I installed Fedora-29 to check out building on Fedora I didn't
> have rpcgen installed.
>
> autogen worked and configure worked but make failed in spectacular ways.
>
> The attached patch warns the user during configure but is perhaps not
> the correct test, because of rpcgen is on your path but not where the
> earlier tests expect it, things will still likely fail.
Here is a better version. Since we already know we didn't find rpcgen,
just let the user know.
Tested by uninstalling rpcgen.
>From 6caea95ccebb5d3635b3d1c91e8683954fe61645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: root <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 19:51:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] If we don't find rpcgen let the user know about it rather
than getting an error later during make.
---
configure.ac | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index cb9d921..b23bb6a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(rpcgen,
if test "$rpcgen_path" = "yes"; then
for p in /usr/local/bin/rpcgen /usr/bin/rpcgen /bin/rpcgen
do if test -f $p ; then RPCGEN_PATH=$p ; break; fi ; done
+ if test -z "$RPCGEN_PATH"; then
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([Please install rpcgen or use --with-rpcgen])
+ fi
elif test "$rpcgen_path" != "internal"; then
RPCGEN_PATH=$rpcgen_path
else
--
2.19.1
--
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)(传说杜康是酒的发明者)
