alright, this is getting downright retarded...

[Karl DeBisschop]

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



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