[getdns-api] Building getdns on CentOS 6.6 from git

[John Dickinson]

On 21 Jun 2016, at 15:53, Robert Groenenberg wrote:

> When building getdns fresh from Git on CentOS 6.6 I run in a few issues. I followed the instructions in README.md, INSTALL and project-doc/release-procedure.txt, but I can't make it build without some manual patches. So probably I'm missing some steps.
>
> Here's what happens:
>
> *[rgr at henry ***[:] *t]$ git clone https://github.com/getdnsapi/getdns.git*
> ... (all Ok)
> *[rgr at henry [:] t]$ cd getdns**
> **[rgr at henry [:develop] getdns]$ libtoolize -ci*
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> libtoolize: copying file `./config.guess'
> libtoolize: copying file `./config.sub'
> libtoolize: copying file `./install-sh'
> libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> *[rgr at henry [:develop] getdns]$ autoreconf -fi*
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> *[rgr at henry [:develop] getdns]$ ./configure --with-libevent=/usr/local
> *...
> checking for u_char... yes
> checking for fcntl... yes
> checking for ioctlsocket... no
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for CHECK... yes
> ./configure: line 16761: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
> ./configure: line 16761: `fi'
>
> The offending line is an empty if:
>> if test "x$have_libcheck" = x1; then
>>
>> fi
> (there are a few more of these). I'm no m4 expert, so I don't get why configure is generated like this.
> Changing this into
>> if test "x$have_libcheck" = x1; then
>> echo Getdns rocks
>> fi
> makes configure run without errors.
>
> The 2nd problem is that PACKAGE_URL is missing from the generated src/config.h. After adding that manually things compile and work fine.
>
>
> So apparently something goes wrong in the autoreconf area. I have:
> - libtoolize (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b
> - autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
>
> Any hints would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
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The if clause should look like this

if test "x$have_libcheck" = x1; then :

fi

Note the extra : or do nothing command.

I see the same on Centos 6.6 but it works fine on CentOS 7. So I guess there is something wrong with /bin/sh or autoconf on 6.6

regards
John

John Dickinson

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