Re: [sigc] building sigc++ with mips pro compiler

[Charles Kerr <ckerr@osserver1.nssl.noaa.gov>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:45:14PM -0700, Karl Nelson wrote:

> > Is it your responsability, or libtool, or automake
> > or anything else I don't know exactly the purpose ?
 
> This is a definite automake problem.  (Thus it is going to be
> very hard to fix.)  The file ${automake_prefix}/share/automake/depend2.am
> defines how to specify the options for the compiler dependency
> functions.  However, this only really works for gnu and compilers
> that have very similar functionality.  (Gtkmm list also has
> reports of similar problems with automake files on Sun compilers.)
> [snip]
>
> In the long term, this is a problem that GNU is going to have
> to deal with in some other way.  The automake files produce what
> should be compiler independent Makefiles.  [snip]

The automake people have been working on this issue recently.
This was in the automake mailing list last week:

> >  "Currently, this [dependency] support requires the use of
> >  GNU make and gcc."  --Automake 1.4 Manual, top of page 8.
> >  Any suggestions for adding more support?
>
> The automake CVS tree, branch user-dep-gen-branch, supports dependency 
> tracking with any make and with most C compilers.  There's a snapshot
> available in my home page.

Information on reaching the CVS tree can be found at
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/automake/.

I'm cc'ing the automake list to let them know that sigc++ and
Gtkmm clients are having problems related to this too.

Charles