[gentoo-dev] Re: Evolution Pilot Conduit

[gentoo-dev] Re: Evolution Pilot Conduit

[David A. Desrosiers]

> If anyone is interested it was pilot-link that had a broken
> configure-script causing it not to build with iconv support. :)

	Actually, no. Your build of pilot-link wasn't built properly. In
fact, one of the Ximian guys added the iconv check to pilot-link last
December, since it never used iconv in the past. You can see the actual
insertion point here:

	http://cvs.pilot-link.org/index.cgi/configure.in.diff?r1=1.27&r2=1.28

	Please don't blame pilot-link for incorrect builds. The script works
fine on my machine, and on many other machines that have included iconv
support. If there's a bug, please submit a patch to the file in question, or
report the bug at bugs.pilot-link.org.

	I'm not on this list, so replies back to the list will not reach me.


/d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Evolution Pilot Conduit

[Mikael Hallendal]

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sön 2002-01-06 klockan 22.19 skrev David A. Desrosiers:
> 
> > If anyone is interested it was pilot-link that had a broken
> > configure-script causing it not to build with iconv support. :)

First, next time you send a one month delayed reply to a list it would
be nice if you didn't cut out who wrote the first mail (it turned out to
be me).

> 	Actually, no. Your build of pilot-link wasn't built properly.

That is the entire problem.

> 	Please don't blame pilot-link for incorrect builds.

If the problem that pilot-link doesn't get built correctly is the fault
of pilot-link it should be blamed.

> The script works fine on my machine, and on many other machines that
> have included iconv support.

That isn't always equal to the script being correct though.

> If there's a bug, please submit a patch to the file in question, or
> report the bug at bugs.pilot-link.org.

The problem was that configure found iconv in our glibc but it didn't
set HAVE_ICONV=1 in pi-config.h. If I did 

       echo "#define HAVE_ICONV 1" >> pi-config.h

after configure had run it built correctly with ICONV support. So I
think that in someway the configure-script was broken. Haven't had time
to look more deeply into it. Might also be our autoconf but I haven't
had any problems with any other packages than pilot-link.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

-- 
Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Evolution Pilot Conduit

[Mikael Hallendal]

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mån 2002-01-07 klockan 00.53 skrev David A. Desrosiers:
> 
> > As I said, it _do_ find iconv (or so says the configure-script) but it
> > doesn't set it in the pi-config.h
> 
> 	Ok, this is a slightly different issue then. Noted.
> 
> > Yes, it might be a problem either in 0.9.6 (since it's not a supported
> > release) or in Gentoo Linux.
> 
> 	0.9.6 is not a release at all, unsupported or not. The versions in
> the official cvs jumped from 0.9.5 to 0.10.1, there was never a 0.9.6,
> unless someone made a tarball from the 0.9.5 cvs sources, changed the
> version to make it appear that there was a "newer" release, and let it out
> into the wild.

Which I suppose is what happend:
http://www.eskil.org/gnome-pilot/download/tarballs/pilot-link-0.9.6.tar.gz

> > So if you try to cool down a bit I'll try to figure out what was going
> > wrong (might very well be 0.9.6 since I haven't seen these problems
> > before).
> 
> 	I would suggest sticking with official releases, because in
> unofficial rogue versions, you never know what you'll find, or what has been
> changed.

Ok, I've (re)-tracked down the problem. And the error is in 0.9.6
(worked fine with 0.9.5), sorry to made it look like it was your fault
with it was the one that released 0.9.6 (which very much sounds like an
official newer release than 0.9.6).

configure:7065: checking for gnu_get_libc_version
configure:7102: gcc -o conftest -g -O2     conftest.c  -lm >&5
configure:7105: $? = 0
configure:7108: test -s conftest
configure:7111: $? = 0
configure:7121: result: yes
configure:7131: checking if system iconv handles CP1252
configure:7173: gcc -c -g -O2   conftest.c >&5
configure: In function `main':
configure:7155: warning: passing arg 2 of `iconv' from incompatible
pointer typeconfigure: At top level:
configure:7164: redefinition of `main'
configure:7144: `main' previously defined here
configure: In function `main':
configure:7164: number of arguments doesn't match prototype
configure:7144: prototype declaration
configure:7165: `echo' undeclared (first use in this function)
configure:7165: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
configure:7165: for each function it appears in.)
configure:7165: parse error before string constant
configure:7166: `have_iconv' undeclared (first use in this function)
configure:7167: `yes' undeclared (first use in this function)

When will you guys release 0.10.1?

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

-- 
Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden


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