[LLVMdev] Setting up new project

[Lane Schwartz]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Lane Schwartz <dowobeha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am attempting to set up a new frontend project based on the sample
>  project (I'm following the instructions at
>  http://llvm.org/docs/Projects.html). In doing so, I hit a problem with
>  AutoRegen.sh which I worked around, and hit a problem with configure
>  that I don't know how to work around.
>
>  Below is what happens when I attempt to autoconf and configure the
>  sample project that ships with LLVM. This is on Mac OS X 10.5 with
>  autoconf 2.6.0. For reference, /opt/src-llvm is where my llvm sources
>  are, and where I built those sources. My project is in
>  /opt/src-llvm/projects/sample.
>
>  $ cd /opt/src-llvm/projects/sample
>
>  $ cd autoconf/
>  $ ./AutoRegen.sh
>  Your autoconf was not detected as being 2.5x
>
>  I have autoconf 2.6. To keep going I edited AutoRegen.sh and made the
>  following change:
>
>  8c8
>  < autoconf --version | egrep '2\.5[0-9]' > /dev/null
>  ---
>  > autoconf --version | egrep '2\.[56][0-9]' > /dev/null
>
>
>  $ ./AutoRegen.sh
>  Regenerating aclocal.m4 with aclocal
>  Regenerating configure with autoconf 2.5x
>
>  $ cd ..
>
>
>  When I compiled the llvm sources, I did not do make install. So the
>  object files are still where they were built.
>
>  $ ./configure --with-llvmsrc=/opt/src-llvm --with-llvmobj=/opt/src-llvm/Release
>  configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in
>  ../../../autoconf "."/../../../autoconf
>
>  OK. So maybe it wants the main llvm source directory...
>
>  $ ./configure --with-llvmsrc=/opt/src-llvm --with-llvmobj=/opt/src-llvm
>  configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in
>  ../../../autoconf "."/../../../autoconf
>
>
>  It looks like configure is not correctly accepting the flags I'm giving it.
>
>
>  Any thoughts on where to go from here?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Lane
>

I should mention that I get the same result if I run configure without
any flags.

Lane