Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of PortingTips

Timestamp:

08/19/08 16:30:20 (7 years ago)

Author:

scottmc

Comment:

Added info about cp config.guess and config.sub files

PortingTips

@@ -21 +21 @@
 to your {{{build/jam/UserBuildConfig}}} file. This sets up a development environment and unzips a small tree of ready-to-use binary tools onto your image, including a Haiku-specific gcc2, [wiki:dev-lang/perl Perl] and autotools. Other helpful packages are {{{OpenSSL}}} and the {{{Pe}}} text editor (which allows you to jump to the line of an error message) and {{{Firefox}}} (which allows you to copy-and-paste console output to our Wiki pages).
 
-Most software cannot handle {{{i586-pc-haiku}}} yet, so it is usually necessary to {{{configure}}} with {{{--build=i586-pc-beos}}}.
+Most software cannot handle {{{i586-pc-haiku}}} yet, so it is usually necessary to {{{configure}}} with {{{--build=i586-pc-beos}}}, or you can:
+{{{
+ cp /boot/home/config/share/libtool/config.guess .
+ cp /boot/home/config/share/libtool/config.sub .
+}}}
+Where . is the package root folder, or the folder in which the package has outdated config.guess and/or config.sub files.  If trying to build static and shared libraries, you may also need to run:
+{{{
+ libtoolize --force --copy
+ aclocal
+ automake
+ autoconf
+}}}
+Which "should" force the Haiku  cases into your configure file.  You might have to use other options to get aclocal/automake/autoconf to do this successfully.
 
 === gcc 4.x ===
@@ -47 +59 @@
 
 Many packages have an option to do a "make install", in many of those cases you can use:[[BR]]
- * make install DESTDIR=/boot/foo
- * cd /boot/foo/boot
- * zip -ry9 foo-x.x.x-haiku-#.zip *
+{{{
+ make install DESTDIR=/boot/foo
+ cd /boot/foo/boot
+ zip -ry9 foo-x.x.x-haiku-#.zip *
+}}}
 Where x.x.x is the rev of the package, and # is the portlog revision, which will usually be 1.