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BBrian |
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? automake-1.8.5 complains about autoconf |
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Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:50:06 -0700 |
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Gnu utility folks,
I need to get automake-1.8.5 up and running so I have aclocal-1.8 so I can
compile FlightGear. My experience may show a possible bug in the 1.8.5
distribution scripts (see 2nd to last paragraph), so I'm cross-posting to
the ~.bug newsgroup.
I'm currently using makeconf 2.13 with the 2.59 wrapper, and automake 1.7.6.
When I try to build the automake-1.8.5 package, running ./configure errors.
In the log file (config.log), I see:
configure:1846: checking whether autoconf works
configure:1853: cd conftest && eval autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac
Usage: autoconf [-h] [--help] [-m dir] [--macrodir=dir]
[-l dir] [--localdir=dir] [--version] [template-file]
configure:1856: $? = 1
configure:1865: result: no
configure:1869: error: The installed version of autoconf does not work.
Please check config.log for error messages before this one.
I'm getting a message that autoconf doesn't work when the script creates
the conftest directory, cds to conftest and runs autoconf. But how can
autoconf work when there's no conftest.ac file? Shouldn't I *expect* the
attempt to run autoconf to fail? Is this a distribution bug?
I know my autoconf/automake combo works because I can successfully
configure, make, and install the plib, and SimGear packages, which are also
precursors to FlightGear.
Any thoughts appreciated! [Replying to the "From:" address directly will be
auto-discarded for spam reasons. I'll watch the newsgroup for a reply.
Thanks.]
/Brian
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