On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:30:53AM -0400, pps wrote:
> Chris Frey wrote:
> >For unix, if you're building from svn, you'll need to run all the autoconf
> >tools. There is a 'bootstrap' script to make that easy. So far I haven't
^^^^^^^^^
> After I downloaded mysqlpp using svn, what's the next step to do??
> makemake.sh or configure?? I doesn't make alot of sence to me that it
> has boostrap script or all autoconf tools - I don't really know that
> therminology :) Most of the distributions have a readme that tells what
> to do and almost always it's ./configure && make install clean
> with mysqlpp I don't know where to start from. (makemake.sh fails,
> there's no configure script etc.)
The configure script is in the tarball... it just doesn't make much sense
to put the configure script in SVN, since it changes so often, and is
purely a generated file. So when using SVN, you have to run ./bootstrap,
which handles the series of automake, autoconf, etc calls for you, and when
that's done, you'll have a ./configure that you can use normally.
> software using the right compiler). With freebsd there's no need to
> specify extra LD_LIB_PATH etc, all is needed is to use g++34 instead of
> g++ - it figures out where correct library is located by itself...
I only used LD_LIBRARY_PATH because the libs were not in a standard spot.
I like putting test compilers and software in home directories of their
own... makes it easier for me to tinker on things completely separate
from my normal system.
It's just how I do it... you likely won't need it if you have all the compilers
you need installed on your system.
- Chris
