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Re: trying to build ecosconfig for Solaris 7
- To: bartv at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] trying to build ecosconfig for Solaris 7
- From: Deborah Bennett <Deborah dot Bennett at eng dot sun dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:42:48 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Reply-To: Deborah Bennett <Deborah dot Bennett at eng dot sun dot com>
>
> >>>>> "Deborah" == Deborah Bennett <Deborah.Bennett@eng.sun.com> writes:
>
> Deborah> I am trying to build ecosconfig for Solaris 7. I found
> Deborah> the reasonable README in tools/src/ which I am following.
> Deborah> This file doesn't give the relative path to the configure
> Deborah> script, but I found one in
> Deborah> tools/src/tools/configtool/standalone/common which I am
> Deborah> using.
>
> <snip>
>
> You need to build the entire host-side tree and not just ecosconfig,
> since the latter relies on various libraries such as libcdl.a. You
> should be using the configure script that is in the same directory as
> the README file. That will take care of all the required
> subdirectories in the appropriate order.
Thank you Bart, this was the trick. The README isn't that specific
about which configure script to use in the tools/src tree
(and I found several). I used tools/src/configure and the configure
worked properly the first time.
>
> With appropriate care it is possible to use the lower-level configure
> scripts, but those are really intended for use only by the
> maintainers. The top-level configure script is for general use.
This makes sense and explains what I was seeing.
Thanks again.
-deborah bennett