Re: Can't open configure

[Braden McDaniel]

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 12:21 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Braden,
> 
> thanks for providing feedback!
> 
> * Braden McDaniel wrote on Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:17:42AM CEST:
> > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 07:54 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Paulo J. Matos wrote on Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:34:30PM CET:
> > > > After running:
> > > > 
> > > > $ rm -Rf aclocal.m4 autom4te.cache/ config.h.in config.guess
> > > > config.log  config.status config.sub configure depcomp install-sh
> > > > libtool libltdl/ ltmain.sh missing
> > > [...]
> > > > Everything seems ok now.
> > > 
> > > Hmm.  When this next happens, please look at the exact time stamps of
> > > the files that deal with configure, and everything below autom4te.cache
> > > (also permissions there).  Also, you still did not tell us which system
> > > this was on.
> > 
> > I'm observing this problem on a Fedora 9 system; specifically:
> > 
> >         $ autoreconf
> >         acinclude.m4:6596: the serial number must appear before any macro 
> > definition
> >         autom4te: cannot open configure: Permission denied
> >         autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> >         
> > The autoconf version is 2.61. The libtool version is 1.5.24.
> > 
> > I started seeing this after modifying my project to include a local copy
> > of the libltdl sources. The acinclude.m4 referenced in the error message
> > is the one in the libltdl subdirectory created by "libtoolize --ltdl".
> > 
> > Blowing away autom4te.cache does not help.
> 
> OK, please go in the toplevel source tree and show output of
>   ls -la . libltdl autom4te.cache libltdl/autom4te.cache

Here it is:

        $ ls -la . libltdl autom4te.cache libltdl/autom4te.cache/
        .:
        total 1384
        drwxrwxr-x 16 braden braden   4096 2008-10-05 13:04 .
        drwxrwxr-x  3 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 00:38 ..
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden 274228 2008-10-03 02:51 aclocal.m4
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden   1513 2008-10-03 00:38 AUTHORS
        drwxr-xr-x  2 braden braden   4096 2008-10-05 13:04 autom4te.cache
        -rwxrwxr-x  1 braden braden    103 2008-10-03 02:14 bootstrap
        drwxrwxr-x 11 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:12 build
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden 878566 2008-10-03 00:38 ChangeLog
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden     31 2008-10-03 02:51 config.guess -> 
/usr/share/libtool/config.guess
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden     29 2008-10-03 02:51 config.sub -> 
/usr/share/libtool/config.sub
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden  17117 2008-10-03 02:16 configure.ac
        -rwxrwxr-x  1 braden braden    397 2008-10-03 00:38 configure-gcc-dbg
        -rwxrwxr-x  1 braden braden    397 2008-10-03 00:38 configure-gcc-opt
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden  35147 2008-10-03 00:38 COPYING
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden   7639 2008-10-03 00:38 COPYING.LESSER
        drwxrwxr-x  4 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:11 data
        drwxrwxr-x  4 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:11 doc
        drwxrwxr-x  3 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:11 examples
        drwxrwxr-x  4 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:11 ide-projects
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden   9273 2008-10-03 00:38 INSTALL
        drwxrwxr-x  4 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:11 lib
        drwxrwxr-x  3 braden braden   4096 2008-10-05 13:04 libltdl
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden     28 2008-10-03 02:51 ltmain.sh -> 
/usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh
        drwxrwxr-x  3 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 00:38 m4
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden    467 2008-10-03 04:35 Makefile.am
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden  24533 2008-10-03 02:11 Makefile.in
        drwxrwxr-x  5 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:11 models
        drwxrwxr-x  5 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:14 mozilla-plugin
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden  28207 2008-10-03 00:38 NEWS
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden    314 2008-10-03 00:38 openvrml-gl.pc.in
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden    332 2008-10-03 00:38 openvrml.pc.in
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden  13650 2008-10-03 00:38 README
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden    744 2008-10-03 00:38 
README.build_from_svn
        drwxrwxr-x  9 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:20 src
        drwxrwxr-x  6 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 04:35 .svn
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden    209 2008-10-03 02:15 svn-prop.tmp~
        drwxrwxr-x  5 braden braden   4096 2008-10-03 02:11 tests
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden    425 2008-10-03 00:38 THANKS
        
        autom4te.cache:
        total 2356
        drwxr-xr-x  2 braden braden   4096 2008-10-05 13:04 .
        drwxrwxr-x 16 braden braden   4096 2008-10-05 13:04 ..
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden 903616 2008-10-05 13:04 output.0
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden 903046 2008-10-05 13:04 output.1
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden  11292 2008-10-05 13:04 requests
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden 483975 2008-10-05 13:04 traces.0
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden  74217 2008-10-05 13:04 traces.1
        
        libltdl:
        total 44
        drwxrwxr-x  3 braden braden  4096 2008-10-05 13:04 .
        drwxrwxr-x 16 braden braden  4096 2008-10-05 13:04 ..
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    39 2008-10-03 02:51 acinclude.m4 -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/acinclude.m4
        -rw-rw-r--  1 braden braden 32675 2008-10-03 02:51 aclocal.m4
        drwxr-xr-x  2 braden braden  4096 2008-10-05 13:04 autom4te.cache
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    39 2008-10-03 02:51 config.guess -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/config.guess
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    38 2008-10-03 02:51 config-h.in -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/config-h.in
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    37 2008-10-03 02:51 config.sub -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/config.sub
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    36 2008-10-03 02:51 configure -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/configure
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    39 2008-10-03 02:51 configure.ac -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/configure.ac
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    38 2008-10-03 02:51 COPYING.LIB -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/COPYING.LIB
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    37 2008-10-03 02:51 install-sh -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/install-sh
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    33 2008-10-03 02:51 ltdl.c -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/ltdl.c
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    33 2008-10-03 02:51 ltdl.h -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/ltdl.h
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    36 2008-10-03 02:51 ltmain.sh -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/ltmain.sh
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    38 2008-10-03 02:51 Makefile.am -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/Makefile.am
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    38 2008-10-03 02:51 Makefile.in -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/Makefile.in
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    34 2008-10-03 02:51 missing -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/missing
        lrwxrwxrwx  1 braden braden    33 2008-10-03 02:51 README -> 
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/README
        
        libltdl/autom4te.cache/:
        total 2024
        drwxr-xr-x 2 braden braden   4096 2008-10-05 13:04 .
        drwxrwxr-x 3 braden braden   4096 2008-10-05 13:04 ..
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 braden braden 762613 2008-10-05 13:04 output.0
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 braden braden 762613 2008-10-05 13:04 output.1
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 braden braden  10827 2008-10-05 13:04 requests
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 braden braden 446875 2008-10-05 13:04 traces.0
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 braden braden  50613 2008-10-05 13:04 traces.1
        

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