running autoconf/make instructions for newlib

[Joel Sherrill]

Ken Werner wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 June 2009 11:03:17 pm Joel Sherrill wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found that I asked this about 6 years ago
>> about how to do this and got this info
>> for running it on a libc/machine/XXX directory
>>
>> aclocal -I ../../..     # the -I ../../.. points to the top-level newlib
>> dir autoconf
>> automake --cygnus Makefile
>>
>> I tried dropping the ../../.. to ../..
>> and did the same thing in libc/machine
>> but the builds ends with:
>>
>> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
>> ../../../../../gcc-4.3.3/newlib/libc/machine/configure: line 3949:
>> _LT_DECL_SED: command not found
>> configure: updating cache ../.././config.cache
>> configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined.
>> Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
>> configure: error: ../../../../../gcc-4.3.3/newlib/libc/machine/configure
>> failed for machine
>> configure: error: ../../../../gcc-4.3.3/newlib/libc/configure failed for
>> libc
>>
>> Did I miss a step that is different in the libc/machine
>> directory?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>     
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> You need to include the top level directory (src) as well. For the SPU target 
> that would be:
>   cd src/newlib/libc/machine/spu
>   aclocal -I ../../.. -I ../../../..
>   autoconf
>   automake-1.9 --cygnus Makefile
>   
Thank you.  That worked.

Just to note.  The aclocal has to be 1.9 also and automake
needed to be >= 1.9.5 from the 1.9 series.

> Ken
>   


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