Re: Problem building DDD 3.3.1

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 17:56:28 -0500, John Gluck wrote:
> I am trying to do a ./configure of DDD 3.3.1 as part of the build process.
> 
> I am using automake 1.5 autoconf 2.52 gcc 3.0.4. My system is a PC running
> Linux

Are your running a distribution (which?) or a DYI system?

> with a 2.4.18 SMP kernel and XFree86 version 4.1 as well as Lesstif
> 0.92.32.
> 
> Configure hangs at the following:

This problem has been reported before; see
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/ddd/2001-November/001329.html which mentions
        Slackware 8.0
        autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.52
        automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p5
        gcc version 3.0.2

AFAICT, the problem is not with gcc as such (several ports of Debian
GNU/Linux use gcc 3 as their primary C++ compiler, yet I've not seen any
build daemon fail with a hang in configure), nor autoconf (Debian used the
same up until recently), nor automake.

For a proper diagnosis, I'd guess there is some additional information
needed:

- did you use the "configure" from the DDD tarball, or did you regenerate
  it?
- can you provide the "config.log", and a script(1) transcript of trying
        env CXX="g++ -v" CC="gcc -v" sh -x ./configure -v

> If I abort and try to build anway, I get the following:

Nothing wrong here. configure didn't finish, so all kinds of configuration
info is missing, and Makefiles haven't been generated from Makefile.ins, so
building fails.

Ray
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