Re: basic help for bare-boned newbie

[Akim Demaille]

| hi all,
| i'm trying to learn autoconf by converting one of my programs to use
| autoconf.  i'm having difficulty; here's what i tried:
| 
|    % cp Makefile Makefile.orig
|    % mv Makefile Makefile.in
|    % autoscan
|    % mv configure.scan configure.in   
|    % autoheader
|    % autoconf
|    autoconf: Undefined macros:
|    configure.in:22:AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE
|    configure.in:23:AC_FUNC_MALLOC
|    configure.in:27:AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
|    configure.in:3:AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([xpose.c])
|    address@hidden ./configure
|    configure: error: can not find sources in . or ..
| 
| the tutorial i'm using claimed that this should've worked.  clearly
| autoconf _should_ know macro functions like AC_FUNC_MALLOC, so i must be
| missing a very basic and obvious step.

How bizarre...  How about giving the version number?  Of autoscan and
autoconf.

| can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong?
| 
| thanks!
| pete