Two problems with arla 0.25

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Wed Jun 9 18:29:27 CEST 1999


>  > 1. The build process fails because the name of the xfs module in
>  > xfs/solaris is the same as the name of the include directory. That's
>  > easy to solve, I changed the module name in the Makefile to
>  > xfs_module.
>  
>  From the INSTALL file:
>  
>  Arla is configured with autoconf.  Start the configuration process by
>  typing:
>  
>  - `./configure' in the source directory, or
>  - `SRCDIR/configure' in the directory where you want to build arla.
>    (this is the recommended way but requires a make that understands VPATH)
>  
>  The name conflict should not be a problem if you build in a separate
>  directory (i.e. not in the source directory). This should, however be
>  fixed.

As it happens there's some bug with Solaris make and VPATH. Experimentation may
be in order... I bet, though, that if you used gmake, the problem would go away
(not that I'm saying you should need to, just that it would isolate the
problem)

-D






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