Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] PTLib autotools; install error with --disable-video

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 14/08/12 17:14, hohyeis eml cc wrote:
> 2 issues are addressed in this mail:
> - unusual and undesirable autotools behaviour
> - an error during 'make install' after 'configure --disable-video'
>
>
> After configure,
> 'make' will not recompile, even if compile parameters have changed, when object files are present. This is unlike other projects I have encountered which use autotools.
>
> Running 'make install' without a previous 'make' results in error because the 'install' target does not depend on the one for compiling.
>
> I am not knowledgeable about autotools set up and don't know what to change to improve these.

Well, ptlib/opal autotools support is known to be not perfect.  Another 
error is that you cannot have a space in the directory name where 
ptlib/opal reside.

There is too much work to do this correctly.  Feel free to inform 
opalvoip mailing list about that, but I doubt someone will take care of it.

> configuring with
>
> ./configure --disable-video
>
> results in the following error during 'make install'
> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `././videoinput/*.so': No such file or directory
>
> This is using
> https://opalvoip.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opalvoip/ptlib/branches/v2_10

Does this appear after having used make?

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Eugen