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