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108 lines
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There are two ways to build this code;
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(1) Manually
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(2) Using all-singing all-dancing (all-confusing) autotools, ie. autoconf,
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automake, and their little friends (autoheader, etc).
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=================
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Building Manually
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=================
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There is a basic "Makefile" in this directory that gets moved out of the way and
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ignored when building with autoconf et al. This Makefile is suitable for
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building tunala on Linux using gcc. Any other platform probably requires some
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tweaking. Here are the various bits you might need to do if you want to build
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this way and the default Makefile isn't sufficient;
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* Compiler: Edit the "CC" definition in Makefile
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* Headers, features: tunala.h controls what happens in the non-autoconf world.
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It, by default, assumes the system has *everything* (except autoconf's
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"config.h") so if a target system is missing something it must define the
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appropriate "NO_***" symbols in CFLAGS. These include;
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- NO_HAVE_UNISTD_H, NO_HAVE_FCNTL_H, NO_HAVE_LIMITS_H
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Indicates the compiling system doesn't have (or need) these header files.
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- NO_HAVE_STRSTR, NO_HAVE_STRTOUL
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Indicates the compiling system doesn't have these functions. Replacements
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are compiled and used in breakage.c
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- NO_HAVE_SELECT, NO_HAVE_SOCKET
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Pointless symbols - these indicate select() and/or socket() are missing in
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which case the program won't compile anyway.
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If you want to specify any of these, add them with "-D" prefixed to each in
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the CFLAGS definition in Makefile.
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* Compilation flags: edit DEBUG_FLAGS and/or CFLAGS directly to control the
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flags passed to the compiler. This can also be used to change the degree of
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optimisation.
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* Linker flags: some systems (eg. Solaris) require extra linker flags such as;
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-ldl, -lsocket, -lnsl, etc. If unsure, bring up the man page for whichever
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function is "undefined" when the linker fails - that usually indicates what
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you need to add. Make changes to the LINK_FLAGS symbol.
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* Linker command: if a different linker syntax or even a different program is
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required to link, edit the linker line directly in the "tunala:" target
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definition - it currently assumes the "CC" (compiler) program is used to link.
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======================
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Building Automagically
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======================
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Automagic building is handled courtesy of autoconf, automake, etc. There are in
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fact two steps required to build, and only the first has to be done on a system
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with these tools installed (and if I was prepared to bloat out the CVS
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repository, I could store these extra files, but I'm not).
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First step: "autogunk.sh"
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-------------------------
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The "./autogunk.sh" script will call all the necessary autotool commands to
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create missing files and run automake and autoconf. The result is that a
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"./configure" script should be generated and a "Makefile.in" generated from the
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supplied "Makefile.am". NB: This script also moves the "manual" Makefile (see
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above) out of the way and calls it "Makefile.plain" - the "ungunk" script
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reverses this to leave the directory it was previously.
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Once "ungunk" has been run, the resulting directory should be able to build on
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other systems without autoconf, automake, or libtool. Which is what the second
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step describes;
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Second step: "./configure"
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--------------------------
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The second step is to run the generated "./configure" script to create a
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config.h header for your system and to generate a "Makefile" (generated from
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"Makefile.in") tweaked to compile on your system. This is the standard sort of
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thing you see in GNU packages, for example, and the standard tricks also work.
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Eg. to override "configure"'s choice of compiler, set the CC environment
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variable prior to running configure, eg.
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CC=gcc ./configure
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would cause "gcc" to be used even if there is an otherwise preferable (to
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autoconf) native compiler on your system.
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After this run "make" and it should build the "tunala" executable.
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Notes
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-----
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- Some versions of autoconf (or automake?) generate a Makefile syntax that gives
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trouble to some "make" programs on some systems (eg. OpenBSD). If this
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happens, either build 'Manually' (see above) or use "gmake" instead of "make".
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I don't like this either but like even less the idea of sifting into all the
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script magic crud that's involved.
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- On a solaris system I tried, the "configure" script specified some broken
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compiler flags in the resulting Makefile that don't even get echoed to
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stdout/err when the error happens (evil!). If this happens, go into the
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generated Makefile, find the two affected targets ("%.o:" and "%.lo"), and
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remove the offending hidden option in the $(COMPILE) line all the sludge after
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the two first lines of script (ie. after the "echo" and the "COMPILE" lines).
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NB: This will probably only function if "--disable-shared" was used, otherwise
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who knows what would result ...
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