Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Compiling using the 'autoconf' configure script' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Compiling using the 'autoconf' configure script
Authored by: alys on May 08, '04 11:47:11PM

Some of the information in this hint and earlier replies might be outdated now. Here's something I found in section 8.2.2 of the book "Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks" by Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mpantherunix/):

The configure script is designed to be used with two files [config.guess and config.sub] related to the host type, usually residing in the same directory as the configure script... You may run across source code distributions containing older config.* files that don't work with Mac OS X... You can replace the config.guess and config.sub files with the Apple-supplied, like-named versions... Simply issue the following commands from within the sources directory:
cp /usr/share/automake-1.6/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/automake-1.6/config.guess .

Note that there's a space followed by a full stop at the end of both those commands. You will probably need to prefix the commands with sudo.



[ Reply to This | # ]
Compiling using the 'autoconf' configure script
Authored by: bugmenot on Jul 21, '07 12:53:15AM
You don't need to use sudo, and it's recommended that you don't. You usually only need sudo to write to system directories, not to read from them.
Also, on 10.4, the files are in /usr/share/libtool/ .

[ Reply to This | # ]