release_1_7_0-beta1 test results

[J.A. Neitzel]

Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> J.A. Neitzel wrote:
[snip]
> > I do not know your preference regarding test results.
> > No feedback == implicit success, or no feedback == nobody testing.
> > In any case, I thought this could be useful, but feel free to tell
> > me otherwise.  See [0] for machine info if needed.
>
> Thanks for your testing results! Feedback is always welcome, no matter
> if it's good or bad.

Understood, happy to help!

> Have you done a clean install or did you install on top of an older
> installation?

>From the MacPorts perspective, it is a clean install.  Meaning that
I did the following before doing ./configure, make, and sudo make
install for 1_7_0-beta1:

% sudo port uninstall vim-app ; sudo mv /opt /opt.old

...
since I have some stuff in /opt.old/local/etc/* and /opt.old/local/var/db/*
that I need to transfer.

> > The only anomaly I have noticed so far is:
> > 
> > % ./configure
> > [snip]
> > configure: creating ./config.status
> > config.status: creating src/programs/daemondo/Makefile
> > config.status: WARNING:  src/programs/daemondo/Makefile.in seems to \
> > 	ignore the --datarootdir setting
> > config.status: creating Doxyfile
> > config.status: creating Makefile
> > [snip]
> > 
> > ...
> > which may or may not be important.
>
> I don't know what that means. I couldn't see anything wrong in the
> referenced Makefile.

It seems to be related to the GNU autotools.  According to [1],
adding "datarootdir = @datarootdir@" to Makefile.in might help?
Sorry, I do not know or use GNU autotools.

Jeff

[1] - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/autoconf/Changed-Directory-Variables.html