Re: zsh compilation problem with autoconf git

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Ismail,

* Ismail Dönmez wrote on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:43:03AM CET:
> I lost many night's sleep on this without success so I hope people with more 
> autoconf wisdom can help me.

I wouldn't spend so much time on a problem that could be a user problem
without asking people.  That causes frustration.  Next time consider
asking earlier.

> How to reproduce
> 
> Get latest autoconf git if you already didn't.
> 
> # Clone zsh repo
> git clone git://git.pardus.org.tr/zsh
> 
> # create configure
> cd zsh
> autoheader
> autoconf
> ./configure
> 
> now if you cd Src/Modules and type make you will see that it won't build 
> anything and just exit with success. If you try building with autoconf-2.61a 
> it successfully builds Modules.
> 
> Any help is appreciated because I am totally lost. 

If I do the above sequence with git master of Autoconf, then
  cd Src/Modules
  make

will provoke an error as you say, because Src/Modules/Makefile does not
exist.  However, if I do the same with Autoconf 2.61a, the exact same
thing happens.

What you need to do is run
  cd Src
  make

(or just "make prep" should suffice) beforehand, because the Makefile in
Src will cause the generation of the Makefile in Src/Modules.

Hope that helps.