[omniORB] building omniORBpy

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thu, 2019-04-18 at 17:26 +0200, Michael Teske via omniORB-list
wrote:

> I tried to build omniORBpy 4.2.2 on windows. Following the
> instructions in the readme

4.2.3 is the latest release...

[...]
> make[1]: Entering directory
> '/cygdrive/d/Buildslocal/thirdparty/trader/omniORB/src/lib/omniORBpy'
> GNUmakefile:8: mk/afterauto.mk: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'mk/afterauto.mk'.  Stop.

Something has become confused. afterauto.mk is only used by the
autoconf build, but here you are meant to not be using it.

When you unpack omniORBpy, you should have a file in each directory
called GNUmakefile. The top-level omniORBpy directory's one contains
this:

TOP=../../..
CURRENT=src/lib/omniORBpy
include $(TOP)/config/config.mk


There is also a GNUmakefile.in that is transformed into a replacement
GNUmakefile by the configure script. It looks like this:

TOP=.
CURRENT=.
BASE_OMNI_TREE=@top_srcdir@
VPATH=@srcdir@

include $(TOP)/mk/beforeauto.mk
include @srcdir@/dir.mk
include $(TOP)/mk/afterauto.mk


You can see that the .in version refers to beforeauto.mk and
afterauto.mk.

Did you perhaps run the configure script in cygwin?  You should not do
that on Windows, because it will try to configure it to build with
cygwin, not with Visual C++.

Duncan.

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