Re: bad autom4te call by autoconf ?

[Akim Demaille]

| Hello!

Hi!

| I'm a newbie in autoconf-ing, having (installation and) execution problems 
for 
| autoconf 2.52b on alphaev67-dec-osf4.0f.

Welcome :)

| Testing seems to be relevant, though, as after installation I get for any
| configure.ac :
| 
| % autoconf -v
| autoconf: running /home/cfd1/alphaev67-dec-osf4.0f/bin//autom4te --verbose
| --include /home/cfd1/share/autoconf --include . --warning syntax,
| autoconf/autoconf.m4f    configure.ac --output configure
| Unknown option: warning

It looks good though.  The trailing comma is OK.

| In fact, the options passed to autom4te look bad.

Nope.

| As these failures are really essential, it seems more probable to me that the
| error is on my side than due to a bug, but I don't know what it could be and I
| did not find anything related in the mailing list.
| 
| The configure options I used for the installation are:
|  --prefix=/home/cfd1
|  --exec-prefix=/home/cfd1/alphaev67-dec-osf4.0f
|  --srcdir=/home/cfd1/home/cfd/alphaev67-dec-osf4.0f/autoconf-2.52b
|  --enable-shared
|  --enable-static
|  --disable-nls
|  --without-gnu-as
|  --without-gnu-ld
|  --with-included-gettext




| 
| (all the latter serve conformance with other GNU packages that I install
| by the same script and should be ignored by configure if irrelevant, I think)
| 
| The installation is performed by:
| 
| make install \
|  prefix=/home/cfd1/stow/autoconf-2.52b \
|  exec_prefix=/home/cfd1/alphaev67-dec-osf4.0f/stow/autoconf-2.52b
| 
| 
| I will be grateful for any advice!

Arg... That might be the problem.  And maybe not.

Could I ask you to first perform an in-place build?  Then we'll se.

Just a plain ./configure && make check.