Re: ./configure: line 2490: _ACEOF: command not found

[TomK]

On 7/17/2020 9:38 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
>      AC_INIT([wifidog], [1.3.0])
>      ...
>      AC_INIT(src/common.h)

Ok, commented out AC_INIT([wifidog], [1.3.0]). But then I get:


[root@dd-wrt01 wifidog-gateway]# aclocal
configure.ac:37: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and 
version arguments
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/init.m4:23: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:37: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
[root@dd-wrt01 wifidog-gateway]#


So I put AC_INIT([wifidog], [1.3.0]) back and comment out:


# AC_INIT(src/common.h)


The section now looks like this:


# AC_PROG_RANLIB  Obsoleted.  Use LT_INIT
AC_INIT([wifidog], [1.3.0])

# AC_INIT(src/common.h)

AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
LT_INIT



> You're calling AC_INIT twice. That doesn't seem like it can be good,
> althogh I'm not sure it is the cause of the error. (Seems like it would
> be too easy.)
>
> Also:
>    AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE    # (wifidog,$WIFIDOG_VERSION)
>
> Don't put # comments in the middle of a line for configure.ac.
> Use "dnl (wifidog...". I got "no valid invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> found before I removed that.

Ok. Updates the lines like this:

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
dnl (wifidog, $WIFIDOG_VERSION)
# AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE


Now when I run through the following:


libtoolize
aclocal
autoheader
automake
autoreconf


I get a file that's significantly smaller:


[root@dd-wrt01 wifidog-gateway]# ls -atlri configure
425418016 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 594071 Jul 18 13:44 configure


And I now the original proglem is resolved  ( Thank You Very Much! )  So 
looks like the INIT lines were it then.


Now I get this instead of the above said error:


[root@dd-wrt01 wifidog-gateway]# ./configure
configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "." 
"./.." "./../.."
[root@dd-wrt01 wifidog-gateway]#


Same error when I run ./autogen.sh  .  Time to search for why these are 
missing.


> Also, although it should not be related to the bug, I surmise that using
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
> would be better, so as to avoid errors about various required files.
>
> Anyway, back to the original error:
>
> >       ./configure: line 2489: Report: command not found
> >       ./configure: line 2490: _ACEOF: command not found
> ..
>
> So, looking around line 2489 of your generated ./configure, I see:
>      ----
>      test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
>
>      Report bugs to the package provider.
>      _ACEOF
>      ac_status=$?
>      fi
>      ----
>
> Clearly there is supposed to be some sort of here document there related
> to the help message. In a normal configure, it looks like this:
>
>      cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
>      ac_cs_usage="\
>      \`$as_me' instantiates files and other configuration actions
>      ...
>      Report bugs to the package provider."
>
>      _ACEOF
>
> So somehow the beginning of that standard code is not getting output. If
> removing the second AC_INIT doesn't do it, all I can suggest is chopping
> stuff out of your configure.ac until you find the piece that causes the
> problem. E.g., make sure a minimal configure.ac:
>
> AC_INIT([amin], [0.0])dnl
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> AC_OUTPUT
>
> (and an empty Makefile.am) works, and add stuff to that, or remove stuff
> from your configure.ac, until you can narrow it down.
>
> I was using the original versions of autotools as released by GNU, not
> the centos versions. So behavior may differ ...
>
> Hope this helps somehow,
> Karl

It did help.  Tyvm again.

--
Thx,
TK.