Help Building cexp

[Till Straumann]

There are git submodules

after git clone you have to

git submodule update --init --recursive

then

make prep



On 10/25/2017 05:15 PM, Akiv Jhirad wrote:
>
> I tried invoking ‘make prep’ in the top of the cexp directory, but I 
> ended up getting the error “aclocal: error: configure.ac:1: file 
> ‘./m4/cvstag.m4’ does not exist”.
>
> After cloning cexp, I noticed the folder within the cexp directory 
> were empty (getopt, libtecla, m4, pmbfd, regexp). Do I also have to 
> clone the other repos into their respective folders?
>
> To install Bison I already needed to install m4, so I’ve installed 
> both under /usr/local/, but I didn’t find a “cvstag.m4” file in 
> /usr/local/m4 either.
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Akiv Jhirad
>
> *From:*Till Straumann [mailto:strauman at slac.stanford.edu]
> *Sent:* October 25, 2017 4:23 PM
> *To:* Akiv Jhirad <akivjh at gmail.com>; users at rtems.org
> *Subject:* Re: Help Building cexp
>
> configure is automatically generated by the gnu autotools and 
> therefore not maintained
> in git.
>
> You'll have the necessary tools anyways since they are required for 
> building rtems, too
> (autoconf, automake, ...).
>
> Just invoke 'make prep' in the cexp top directory. This creates the 
> various 'configure' and 'Makefile.in's.
>
> You will also need gnu 'bison' for processing the cexp.y grammar.
>
> HTH
> - Till
>
>
> On 10/25/2017 01:05 PM, Akiv Jhirad wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     In previous cexp releases there was a configure we could run to
>     build cexp with ./configure, but in the latest cexp
>     (https://github.com/till-s/cexpsh.git) there doesn’t seem to be an
>     executable configure file? I tried looking into the INSTALL file
>     of the repo but these instructions also used ./configure. There’s
>     a configure.ac file but I’m not sure how to convert that into an
>     executable (could be my lack of linux experience).
>
>     Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
>
>     --
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>     Akiv Jhirad
>
>
>
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