Re: [MiNT] Autoconf, Automake, etc. ?

[Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 05:20:02PM +0200, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> Has anyone compiled recent versions of those GNU sources sucessfully:
> 
> Autoconf

Actually a shell script, no need to compile.

> Automake

A perl script, the same.

> ...

> Perl

You've probably missed that here on the list.  The next Perl versions
will be prepared for MiNT.  Just select "mint" from the list of supported
configurations.  Please email to Jarkko Hietaniemi (jhi@iki.fi).  He 
is the maintainer of the Perl distribution (not only MiNT, all platforms)
and he will be pleased to hear that the MiNT community is interested
in Perl.  He will tell you where you can find a snapshot of the
current developper sources that contain MiNT support.  If you offer
him to do a test-build on your machine you will become a Perl hero, 
I promise you. ;-))

A recent Perl is a prerequisite for GNU-automake.  The old versions floating
around for MiNT/ST will not work!  You will find a complete, precompiled
binary distribution of Perl 5.00402 for MiNT on many ftp sites (for example
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/atari/Programming/Perl/perl5.004_02-mint.tgz).  
This distribution also contains a very nice installation script (don't tell
me, it's not nice, I'm the author).  If you build Perl yourself, the
Makefile will install everything for you properly.

A prerequisite for GNU-autoconf is the macro processor m4.  You can find 
the sources - surprise, surprise - at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/m4*.  
They compile right out of the box.

Once you have Perl5 and m4 installed you can also "configure && make install"
autoconf and automake (also available at the GNU ftp site).

One more word to Perl:  You may find that it has some bugs.  But
most of these bugs will only reflect bugs resp. shortcomings in
the MiNTlib or the kernel.  You should rather report such bugs here 
than to the Perl folks.  If you run the test suite you will get an 
overview which Perl features won't work completely alright with MiNT.

In general Perl works very fine even under MiNT.  For example automake
is a relatively huge Perl script and my Perl here passes the entire
test suite that comes along with automake.

Perl wants a stack of at least 64k!  

Hope this helps you.

Ciao

Guido
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