[poppler] autotools and poppler 0.10.4

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns, 9 de març de 2009, Vincent Torri va escriure:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > A Dilluns, 9 de març de 2009, carlo.bramix va escriure:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >>> Apparently if you generate a configure file on unix
> >>> from configure.in with a recent autoconf, it
> >>> does not produce a configure script that works on
> >>> MINGW+MSYS.
> >>
> >> I just rebuild the configure scripts under Debian 5.0 (stable, not
> >> testing or unstable) with colinux and everything works fine when I
> >> compile under mingw+msys.
> >>
> >> Although all my efforts, I was never able to make autotools working
> >> under msys. Instead, autotools under cygwin normally worked fine but,
> >> for some reasons that I could not understand very well, I remember that
> >> I had some troubles with CR-LF somewhere. So I decided to (re)build the
> >> scripts under linux: in that manner I'm sure that everything is correct
> >> in every part.
> >>
> >> I downloaded Poppler 0.10.4.
> >> I deleted generated files.
> >> I rebuild the scripts and the makefiles.
> >> I compiled and installed poppler. Success.
> >>
> >> autogen.sh under linux said:
> >>
> >> autoconf 2.61
> >> automake 1.10.1
> >> libtool 1.5.26
> >>
> >> These packages are not that old, perhaps you have really "too new"
> >> packages. I believe it would be better to rebuild the scripts with a
> >> stable distribution, at least we are sure that it will work on
> >> everything. Anyways, at the moment I believe it is a good idea to leave
> >> the AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL macro included into configure script, this will
> >> ensure the compatibility with the old, with the stable and the
> >> testing/unstable. Personally, I believe that forcing it is a regression
> >> because lot of software have not it declared in their configure scripts
> >> but they could be already compiled as shared without problems, but this
> >> is just my opinion.
> >
> > It's an autotools regression/feature, if you look a bit around the
> > internet you'll see the mingw people complaining to the autotools people
> > (i think the "problem" is really in libtool) for the change.
> >
> > BTW i'm now using
> > autoconf 2.61
> > automake 1.10.1
> > libtool 2.2.4
>
> if you want to build dll on windows with msys/mingw you either *have to*:
>
> 1) use AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and call AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL before and add
> -no-undefined to libtool flag in the Makefile.am that build the library.
> This way is considered deprecated since 2004-02-20 (in automake 1.9b).
>
> 2) or use LT_INIT([win32-dll]) and add -no-undefined to libtool flag in
> the Makefile.am that build the library. LT_INIT was introduced after
> libtool > 1.5.
>
> As poppler development has certainly begun after 2004 (poppler 0.2 was
> released in 2005, there is no date for 0.1), I think that you can safely
> use the new libtool calls.

I'd better leave it as it is now if it's working.

Albert

>
> Vincent Torri