[XForms] xforms 1.0.90 pre-release

[Angus Leeming]

On Friday 09 April 2004 3:47 pm, Gayle C Roth wrote:
> Hi.
>
> A few days ago, Angus told me about the xforms 1.0.90 pre-release
> for xforms 1.1.  He said it includes gnu autotools to generate
> Makefiles. I'd like to try it out for OpenVMS but don't know where
> to get it.  Where do I go to download this pre-release?  I've tried
> searches on xforms 1.0 and xforms 1.1 and don't know what to do
> from those pages.
>
> Thanks,
> Gayle

Hi, Gayle.

Sorry for any confusion, but my use of "autotools" is just shorthand 
for "autoconf and automake". These pages have links to the official 
gnu download sites:

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/

They're both perl scripts. autoconf will generate a header file 
config.h that is #included in the .c files. It contains a bunch of 
macros
#define HAVE_DECL_VSNPRINTF 1
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
etc. 

automake generates portable makefiles from the Makefile.am templates. 
Thereafter you'll need a 'make' executable to build the sources.

To use them, execute the autogen.sh shell script in the top-level 
directory. Here's what I do:

cd xforms
./autogen.sh
mkdir build && cd build
../configure
make

This builds the object, executable and library files in a directory 
'build' that is separate from the sources themselves. Keeps things 
clean.

Regards,
Angus