Re: [PHP4BETA] Heads up! New UNIX build system in place

On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 01:34:03PM -0400, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Update php4, libzend, TSRM, run buildconf and test as many > > possible configurations on your system as possible. > > > > If something breaks or does not work as expected, I want to > > know it. Everything. Really everything. > > > > Now, go play with the upcoming PHP 4.0 and have fun. > > I don't understand what you are trying to do here in the configure.in: > > PHP_OUTPUT_FILES=echo $PHP_OUTPUT_FILES | sort > > Well, I understand what you are trying to do, but I don't see how it can > work. $PHP_OUTPUT_FILES isn't defined yet at this point as far as I can > tell. There is an m4 macro that defines it, but that hasn't been called > yet, so this echo isn't going to get anything. Or perhaps I am missing > something. I guess we can kill that line. IIRC I had inserted it while trying to correct some other obscurity. > Anyway, I am getting: > > configure.in: 731: required file `./$PHP_OUTPUT_FILES.in' not found > > when I run buildconf Yes, since $PHP_OUTPUT_FILES occurs in AC_OUTPUT. automake assumes that every entry in AC_OUTPUT would have an equivalent filename.in, which is obviously false for this variable. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant