[Coin-discuss] Help with COIN configuration...

[Robin Lougee-Heimer]

>There should be links from the COIN
>home page for the COIN wiki's, or at least to a COIN Help page that
>includes all the wiki links plus email list and archive links.

Amen! 

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> I'm going to leave the "official reply" to the experts, but I 
> do know that the autotools are very sensitive to the 
> particular version you are using. Mixing and matching does 
> not work well. To get the exact version we are all using, see 
> the instructions here:
> 
> https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/pm-get-autotools
> 
> I tried running "autoreconf --install" myself and didn't get 
> the same errors, but I am using the approved version.

I'm using autoconf 2.59, which is the prereq in coin's configure.ac.  I
don't see documentation to indicate what the 'blessed' versions are for
other tools.

> By the 
> way, what is the reason for running autoreconf? I can't 
> really figure out what it is for by reading the man page. I 
> tried running it, but still couldn't get much intuition. I'm 
> pretty new to the autotools.

>From the 'autoreconf' info file: `autoreconf' runs `autoconf',
`autoheader', `aclocal', `automake',
`libtoolize', and `autopoint' (when appropriate) repeatedly to update
the GNU Build System in the specified directories and their
subdirectories (*note Subdirectories::). 

Basically, it simplifies the process of applying the components of the
GNU Build System.

> About creating a Trac page for "uber-problems" such as yours: 
> something like the problem you are seeing should be submitted 
> to the ticket system
> here:
> 
> https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools
> 
> We need to do a better job of directing people to this site. 
> That said, however, I think we may still need an "uber-site" 
> for general COIN information. We are currently discussing the 
> creation of such a site. 

Yes, I agree.  I had trouble finding the Trac wiki's.  In fact, the Trac
links point to the wiki for Trac!  There should be links from the COIN
home page for the COIN wiki's, or at least to a COIN Help page that
includes all the wiki links plus email list and archive links.

--Bill

P.S.  FWIW, I was able to integrate the COIN build process with Acro
(which contains PICO) using the existing 'configure' script.  It worked
fine on Linux, but my experience with similar integration suggests that
that will not be sufficient to ensure portable operation on other
platforms without using the autotools directly.


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