FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

James, I think maybe something like this for starters:

Q: When running configure/autoconf I get a number of

"warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling"

errors.

A: These are harmless.


Or something to that effect anyway.

And while I have your ear, is the copy of the user guide in CVS up to
date?  I'd like to flesh out a couple of things prior to the 0.52
release...which I'm hoping to get out the door soon...

Brian

On Fri, 18 May 2001, James K. Lowden wrote:

> Actually, I think Brian was refering to me, as self-appointed FAQ master.
> 
> However, your answer shed a little light on it for me.  I've tried half a 
> dozen times
> to make any sense of the autoconf info pages.  I never can seem to hold 
> enough of it
> in my head at once to make any one part stick to any other two.  I'm sure 
> that's at
> least partly because I've never had to solve the problem it addresses.  Or 
> it suffers
> from what a lot of meta-meta-meta modeling does: discussion in great detail 
> of
> zero-mass hyper-abstractions.  Or, I suffer from lateness of hour.  Sigh.
> 
> I'm happy to fax the FAQ, if I can say something intelligent.  Which 
> unfortunately I
> can't just yet, but I'll read the libtool info pages (with more focus this 
> time) and
> try to come up with something.  I'm not even sure at this moment which 
> message Brian
> means to ignore.  I guess: AC_TRY_RUN.
> 
> I know there're a few hangers out here, who have discussed autoconf stuff 
> and seem to
> know something.  Maybe some kind soul will try to fix your Tru64 UNIX cc 
> problem and
> this libtool thing.  So we, uh, can call ourselves (ahem) a true 
> multiplatform
> project?
> 
> All that said, what exactly do you mean by " the lag in autoconf or automake
> versions"?  If you could spell it out for your somewhat dim-witted editor, 
> he'd be
> ever so much obliged.
> 
> --jkl
>