Compile guide?

[mdhari]

Sorry if I haven't looked hard enough. I'm trying to figure out how to compile this on my Mac OSX with El Capitan. Usually I'm able to run these commands:

./configure
make install

But it's failing on the first command:

./configure.ac
./configure.ac: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token '[Xdelta3],'
./configure.ac: line 1: 'AC_INIT([Xdelta3], [3.1.0], [[email protected]], '

Are there any helpful links that you could point me to for compiling this?

[fenugrec]

Have you tried running "automake --add-missing" and possibly autoreconf before "./configure" ?

[mdhari]

Is autoremake another program I need to download?

[fenugrec]

Sorry I typo'd, it's automake and autoreconf. Part of GNU autotools

[lgpmichael2]

If it helps, this is what I've managed to put together to build xdelta on Centos 6, which isn't using most of the stuff that xdelta3 requires (for some reason, not sure why xdelta which simply handles bytes needs the latest of anything, but there you go).

Depending on your problems, some or more of these steps may not be needed. However, it does give a pretty good idea of the steps needed where almost nothing is of the version needed, and nothing works.

This uses the sources from the gnu website.

If you get errors about Makefile.in mission, install libtool

#!/bin/sh -                                                                                 

rm -rf autoconf-2.69
rm -rf autoconf-bin

tar -xvf autoconf-2.69.tar.gz

cd autoconf-2.69

./configure --prefix=`pwd`/../autoconf-bin
make
make install

rm -rf automake-1.15
rm -rf automake-bin

cd ..

tar -xvf automake-1.15.tar.gz

cd automake-1.15

PATH=../autoconf-bin/bin:$PATH ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/../automake-bin AUTOCONF=`pwd`/..\
/autoconf-bin/bin/autoconf
make
make install

cd ..

rm -rf xdelta-3.1.0

tar xvf xdelta-3.1.0.tar.gz

cd xdelta-3.1.0/xdelta3

PATH=../../autoconf-bin/bin/:$PATH ../../automake-bin/bin/aclocal
../../autoconf-bin/bin/autoconf
../../autoconf-bin/bin/autoheader

PATH=../../autoconf-bin/bin/:$PATH ../../automake-bin/bin/automake --add-missing

./configure

cat Makefile | sed -e "s/11/0x/g" > Makefile.new
mv -f Makefile.new Makefile


make

[watercrossing]

These instructions didn't work for me. I had to set up my own set of m4, autoconf, automake and libtool; and then run

libtoolize
aclocal
autoconf
automake --add-missing
./configure --prefix=$HOME/tools

The call to libtoolize seems to be missing from most instructions I have found on the web.

[samuelcolvin]

Thanks so much @watercrossing. After numerous failed attempt that worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04.

[samuelcolvin]

Actually, turns out autoheader before automake --add-missing is required too.

[zmsoft]

@mdhari Did you compile successfully under Mac?What is the compile step?

[mdhari]

Nah, I don't think so. I think I tried an older compiled version on the net.

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[zmsoft]

@mdhari Can you share it?Many thanks

[mdhari]

It looks like it's on homebrew http://brewformulas.org/xdelta Try brew install xdelta

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[codemerx]

Here is how to build it - #235 (comment)