Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 01:00:18 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to include m4 macros stored in m4 folder of port's sources? Message-ID: <CACdU%2Bf_yTY=55L2ir9MgTgaqmE4Nb65jJozGRXsKimXM4Fppyg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1369421501.33742.104.camel@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> References: <1369421501.33742.104.camel@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:51 PM, O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > The sources of of port provide their own m4 macros (i.e. AX_PTHREAD, > AX_BOOST) store in ax_boost.m4 in m4 of the toplevel dir of the sources. > > I have to issue USE_AUTOTOOLS= aclocal autoheader libtoolize libtool > autoconf automake to create the proper configure file. > > The configure file fails with an error of a missing macro, in particular > AX_BOOST([]) which is present in the m4 folder and as far as I know, it > should be addressed with libtool. > > I can not find any useful information within the porter's handbook about > this very common case of having pristine autotool environments and how > to handle them. > > My question in specific is: what is the tag/sequence in the toplevel > Makefile to endure that macros stored in the m4-folder of the sources > are loaded automatically? When issuing the > aclocal-autoheader-libtoolize-autoconf-automake chain in the source > folder, everything works fine except the fact that the FreeBSD specific > environment variables are not set. > > Please CC me, I do not subscribe this list. > > Regards and thanks in advance, > Oliver Have a look at Mk/bsd.autotools.mk for the variables that you can define: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.autotools.mk -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were maimed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
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