Fails to compile about phosphor-host-ipmid

[shenki]

As I have said in the past, I recommend we make all of our tools able to compile outside of the bitbake SDK. This allows at the very least compile testing and static analysis to be run on a desktop Linux distribution.

[williamspatrick]

The instructions are written somewhat assuming you are building within an SDK, which maybe isn't ideal. If you are not running in the SDK you need to have autoconf-archive installed.

[msbarth]

I am not able to reproduce any of the issue show here from within an SDK. Please re-attempt after rebasing from within an SDK.

[williamspatrick]

As I mentioned before, you need to have autoconf-archive installed. I did a fresh download of this repository and have no problem getting past configure.

There are two issues to be addressed:
1. We need to find a place to document the need for autoconf-archive to be installed.
2. The AC_CHECK_LIB([mapper], [mapper_get_service]) does not appear to work. I do not have mapper installed and yet I am passing ./configure (and then later failing in make due to missing header file). We should also enhance this to check for the header file for mapper.

checking for mapper_get_service in -lmapper... no  <---- why doesn't this halt?

  CXX      libapphandler_la-apphandler.lo
apphandler.cpp:8:20: fatal error: mapper.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Makefile:747: recipe for target 'libapphandler_la-apphandler.lo' failed

You can also store copies of needed autoconf macros in m4/ (or whatever directory you configure) and it'll work even if you don't have autoconf-archive installed. I can't remember what precedence it all is though :)

[msbarth]

Issue #100 was created to address halting the ./configure step where libmapper is not found.

This issue will track adding the use of "m4-ifndef" checks for none autoconf default macros (i.e. autoconf-archive macros, etc..) prior to use.

[williamspatrick]

I think this has been solved at this point.