alright, this is getting downright retarded...

[Joe Rhett]

> But you you use automake daily?

Perhaps not every day, but many times per week.  As I said, we use autoconf
for management scripts in our own productions.
(not very well, IMHO, but we do use it)

> It looks to me like there is a breakage in the linkage between autoconf
> and automake. I will look some more later, but that is my first
> impression.

Clue me in and I'll look around.

> You neglected to mention what OS you are running, but I think that is
> not the issue.

Whoops, sorry.  Solaris 8, x86, AMD Althon XP+; current on patches

--message history quoted below:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:45:50PM -0500, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 15:57, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > > > Well, automake-1.6 and autoconf-2.58 pukes all over these files as well.
> > > > Please someone tell me you're halfway through a commit?
> > > 
> > > Hmmm. I'm running automake 1.78 and autoconf 2.57 (on Fedora Core 1), no
> > > problems here.
> >  
> > I just upgraded to the latest, I was about one version before yours, now 
> > I'm at 1.79 and 2.58 just like you mentioned in your followup message.
> > 
> > > > I'm more than willing to spend time and effort hacking away on this, but
> > > > the development environment needs to be even halfway capable of providing a
> > > > build.
> > > 
> > > I guess the first thing that would help is to find out why the gnu tool
> > > chain is failing for you. Can you be more specific than "pukes"
> >  
> > cyclops 490% aclocal
> > aclocal: configure.in: 1406: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION' not found in library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 1407: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
> > 
> > cyclops 490% autoconf
> > configure.in:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> >       See the Autoconf documentation.
> > configure.in:1406: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
> > configure.in:1407: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
> > 
> > cyclops 491% autoheader
> > 
> > cyclops 492% automake
> > configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
> > configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
> > configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
> > configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
> > configure.in: required file `./install-sh' not found
> > configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
> > configure.in: required file `./missing' not found
> > configure.in:8: required file `./config.guess' not found
> > configure.in:8: required file `./config.sub' not found
> > Makefile.am: required file `./INSTALL' not found
> > lib/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
> > /opt/gnu/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> > /opt/gnu/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> > /opt/gnu/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> > /opt/gnu/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> > 
> > 
> > Just FYI, we use autoconf for our internal code and I use it daily for 
> > various other projects we're tracking via CVS.  There are no system problems 
> > with autoconf that I'm aware of, and we do use it daily.
> 
> But you you use automake daily?
> 
> It looks to me like there is a breakage in the linkage between autoconf
> and automake. I will look some more later, but that is my first
> impression.
> 
> You neglected to mention what OS you are running, but I think that is
> not the issue.
> 
> --
> Karl

-- 
Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
JRhett at Isite.Net                                      Isite Services, Inc.


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