unorthodox build setup?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 4, 2018, at 09:24, Mark Brethen wrote:

> I’m not sure how to handle this build setup: in the top directory there is a makefile but the configure files are in a subdirectory “src”. The makefile handles it thusly,
> 
> all:	
> 	cd src; \
> 	autoconf; \
> 	autoheader
> 	mkdir -p $(BUILD); \
> 	cd $(BUILD); \
> 	../src/configure --disable-universal; \
> 	$(MAKE)
> 
> and so I get the following error:
> 
> --->  Configuring libreduce
> Error: Failed to configure libreduce: configure failure: command execution failed
> Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_Users_marbre_ports_math_reduce/libreduce/main.log for details.
> Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
> Error: Processing of port libreduce failed
> 
> If I use 'use_configure   no’ in my portfile then it won’t configure the way macport’s intends.

Sounds like you should do something like:


use_autoreconf yes
autoreconf.dir ${worksrcpath}/src

configure.dir ${workpath}/build
configure.cmd ${autoreconf.dir}/configure

pre-configure {
    xinstall -d ${configure.dir}
}

build.dir ${configure.dir}