From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Deborah Bennett To: bartv@redhat.com Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] trying to build ecosconfig for Solaris 7 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:42:00 -0000 Message-id: <200009121642.JAA20847@nintendo.Eng.Sun.COM> X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00163.html > > >>>>> "Deborah" == Deborah Bennett writes: > > Deborah> I am trying to build ecosconfig for Solaris 7. I found > Deborah> the reasonable README in tools/src/ which I am following. > Deborah> This file doesn't give the relative path to the configure > Deborah> script, but I found one in > Deborah> tools/src/tools/configtool/standalone/common which I am > Deborah> using. > > > > You need to build the entire host-side tree and not just ecosconfig, > since the latter relies on various libraries such as libcdl.a. You > should be using the configure script that is in the same directory as > the README file. That will take care of all the required > subdirectories in the appropriate order. Thank you Bart, this was the trick. The README isn't that specific about which configure script to use in the tools/src tree (and I found several). I used tools/src/configure and the configure worked properly the first time. > > With appropriate care it is possible to use the lower-level configure > scripts, but those are really intended for use only by the > maintainers. The top-level configure script is for general use. This makes sense and explains what I was seeing. Thanks again. -deborah bennett