[Help-gnunet] gentoo cvs

[Benjamin Paul Kay]

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Christian Grothoff wrote:
| On Wednesday 22 September 2004 12:43 pm, Alex wrote:
|
|>Benajmin Paul Kay,
|>
|>  Here is a new report.sh file that should correctly
|>recognise your automake version (automake-1.7
|>versions, automake-1.5 versions, and otherwise lower
|>version than 1.5.)
|>
|> Please tell me if it works.
|
|
| Well, that report.sh will just arbitrarily pick automake-1.7 if it
exists --
| but that does not solve the problem of which version will be invoked from
| autoreconf / autoconf.  The current script in cvs tests what the
'default'
| version of automake/autoconf is (without -version), which indicates some
| rather strange properties for Benjamin's system.  In the end, without
further
| evidence, I'll be happy to blame gentoo.
|
| C
|

OK, here's an ugly hack (to GNUnet, not Gentoo) that makes some progress:
Inside /usr/bin/automake, it says:
# Executes the correct autoconf version.
#
# - defaults to automake-1.4
# - runs automake-1.8 if it exists and...
#   - envvar WANT_AUTOMAKE is set to `1.8'
#     -or-
#   - `Makefile.in' was generated by automake-1.8 or superior, which
#     specifically needs automake-1.8
#     -or_
#   - 'aclocal.m4' contain AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION, specifying the use of 1.8
# - runs automake-1.7 if it exists and...
#   - envvar WANT_AUTOMAKE is set to `1.7'
#     -or-
#   - `Makefile.in' was generated by automake-1.7 or superior, which
#     specifically needs automake-1.7
#     -or-
#   - 'aclocal.m4' contain AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION, specifyint the use of 1.7
#     -or-

So if the bootstrap script is modified to look like this:
#!/bin/sh
cd libltdl
WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.7" autoreconf -f -i
cd ..
WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.7" autoreconf -f -i

With these modifications, . bootstrap and ./configure work; make fails.
The same results are achived with WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.8", plus a bunch of
warnings during the bootstrap process. Note that these changes could be
made in the two aclocal.m4's instead of the bootstrap script, but I felt
that might be more prone to error (and prone to forgetting to change the
automake version when GNUnet moves to version automake>=1.8).

Hopefully someone can shed some light on why make is now failing; I've
attached some output. I've also changed the subject to more accurately
reflect what's going on in the thread.

Thanks everyone for the help!
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