[Xastir] Ubuntu 6.10 Bootstrap error

[John Ronan]

On 17 Nov 2006, at 15:09, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:29:57AM +0000, we recorded a bogon- 
> computron collision of the <jronan at tssg.org> flavor, containing:
>>
>> I'm trying your 'cheesy hack' now Tom on the LiveCD.  It didn't seem
>> to work initially as the Makefile in the 'bin' subdirectory wasn't
>> receiving the 'gcc -shared' instruction/directive.  Just to be sure
>> its not a weirdness on the liveCD's part, I'm going to start again.
>
> Several hours later I discovered that my first hack only worked  
> because I was
> doing it in a dirty directory.  Turns out that the tarball for  
> libgeotiff
>
Thats what caught me this morning.
> has a config.in with a newer modification time than configure, and  
> a makefile
> that has the following rules:
>
>   config.status: configure
>        ./configure
>
>   configure: configure.in
>        autoconf
>
> Which means that if you do a fresh untar and then do:
>    ./configure --with-ld-shared="gcc -shared"
>    make
>
> the makefile does this:
>   autoconf
>   ./configure
>   build the code
>
> which is Just Wrong, as it undoes your command line option.
>
yes... got that.
> At about 2am this morning I changed the wiki *again* to add the  
> extra cheese
> that touches configure first, so that the makefile doesn't rebuild it.
>
Well caught.

And as I restarted from scratch following your instructions, I now  
have a shiny new Ubuntu 6.10 Live CD made that I'm about to burn...  
but I need caffine first.

Regards
John

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