Regarding ./configure file

[shanmukha sainath addepalli]

Sir/Madam,

I need to add few functions related to libwnck. It requires some header
files to be included. I included them in wine source code. But when compiled
it says header files not found. I haven't updated configure file. How can i
update it?
please tell me what r the changes that i need to made?

Regards,
Sainath.

[Stefan Dösinger]

Don't modify ./configure directly, edit configure.ac instead. The autoconf
documentation describes how this file works. configure is then created from
configure.ac by running "autoconf"

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On Behalf Of shanmukha sainath addepalli
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:27 AM
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Subject: Regarding ./configure file

Sir/Madam,

I need to add few functions related to libwnck. It requires some header
files to be included. I included them in wine source code. But when compiled
it says header files not found. I haven't updated configure file. How can i
update it?
please tell me what r the changes that i need to made?

Regards,
Sainath.

[Massimo Del Fedele]

I've looked into configure and configure.ac and I've seen that configure 
is quite more recent than configure.ac.... and it seems to have been 
changed manually. Am I wrong ?

Max

Stefan Dösinger ha scritto:
> Don't modify ./configure directly, edit configure.ac instead. The 
> autoconf documentation describes how this file works. configure is then 
> created from configure.ac by running "autoconf"
>
> *From:* [e-mail] 
> [mailto:[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of *shanmukha sainath 
> addepalli
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:27 AM
> *To:* [e-mail]
> *Subject:* Regarding ./configure file
>
> Sir/Madam,
>
> I need to add few functions related to libwnck. It requires some header 
> files to be included. I included them in wine source code. But when 
> compiled it says header files not found. I haven't updated configure 
> file. How can i update it?
> please tell me what r the changes that i need to made?
>
> Regards,
> Sainath.

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Massimo Del Fedele wrote:
> I've looked into configure and configure.ac and I've seen that configure 
> is quite more recent than configure.ac.... and it seems to have been 
> changed manually. Am I wrong ?

Yes. configure is really not a file that anyone would want to modify 
manually. It may be regenerated alone from time to time to update it to 
newer versions of autoconf, but it's definitely not modified manually.

[Andrew Fenn]

Isn't all the configuration done via ./tools/make_makefiles ? I
thought that if you want to add anything to wine you:

1 - simply add it to git
2 - ./tools/make_makefiles
3 - autoconf
4 - ./configure
5 - make depend && make

Is this wrong?

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Francois Gouget  wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Massimo Del Fedele wrote:
> > I've looked into configure and configure.ac and I've seen that configure
> > is quite more recent than configure.ac.... and it seems to have been
> > changed manually. Am I wrong ?
>
> Yes. configure is really not a file that anyone would want to modify
> manually. It may be regenerated alone from time to time to update it to
> newer versions of autoconf, but it's definitely not modified manually.
>
> --
> Francois Gouget               http://fgouget.free.fr/
>  The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh day the
>  programmer rested. We've been trying to debug the *&^%$#@ thing ever since.
>                      Moral: design before you implement.

[Juan Lang]

> Isn't all the configuration done via ./tools/make_makefiles ?

No, not all.
> I thought that if you want to add anything to wine you:
>
> 1 - simply add it to git
> 2 - ./tools/make_makefiles
> 3 - autoconf
> 4 - ./configure
> 5 - make depend && make
>
> Is this wrong?

Yes.  On occasion we need to add or improve checks for different
libraries.  tools/make_makefiles is used to add new code to Wine,
configure.ac is modified to add new configure checks.

The use of configure.ac is well-described on the GNU autoconf page.
--Juan

[Detlef Riekenberg]

On Fr, 2008-11-21 at 10:57 -0800, Juan Lang wrote:
> > I thought that if you want to add anything to wine you:
> >
> > 1 - simply add it to git
> > 2 - ./tools/make_makefiles
> > 3 - autoconf
> > 4 - ./configure
> > 5 - make depend && make
> >
> > Is this wrong?
>
> Yes.  On occasion we need to add or improve checks for different
> libraries.  tools/make_makefiles is used to add new code to Wine,
> configure.ac is modified to add new configure checks.

When a new directory was added to Wine (git-update-index --add
*/Makefile.in), then configure.ac is updated by make_makefiles

The Makefile has a rule to rebuild configure, when configure.ac changed
The Makefile has a rule to rerun config.status, when configure changed
(That will rerun configure / rebuild the Makefiles)

So in the line 3 above is only present to reduce the total time.