On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:59:45PM -0700, Seth Brutzman wrote:
So, just for the record, automake 1.9.x worked for me overall except that any mmx optimizations would cause make to error due to the misplacing of .o files. I was able to got around the problem in three ways:
- Compile Inkscape without mmx optimization (not my favorite solution)
- Manually move all *_mmx*.o files from @TOPSRCDIR@/src/ to
@TOPSRCDIR@/src/libnr/ when make fails (not difficult or particularly time consuming, but annoying nonetheless) 3) Regress to 1.8 series of automake (the simplest and most reliable in the end, but it's always a shame when tools aren't backwards compatible)
I wish I knew why automake is the buggy link in the chain, or why in only has issues with mmx support. Don't hold me to this, as I'm not all that familiar with the tool (and I only have limited programming experience), but I'll try compiling with automake 1.9 again and examining the results. If I come up with anything of merit, I'll post it.
Again, thanks for all the help, guys. I love Inkscape and I'm looking forward to doing more bug hunting and whatever else I may for the project.
Great! I'm glad you put up with the brokeness and dug into it. Would you have any time to open a bug with the automake folks? I hadn't had time to dive in as far as you did to get some details into where it was blowing up. With what you found, they might be able to understand more quickly what the problem is. (I wonder in the back of my head if maybe there's something *we* aren't doing right, and am1.9 just happens to finally expose it.)
Thanks!