Re: DDD

[Michael Eager]

On 03/13/15 09:07, Fred Krogh wrote:
> I thought I might be able to help a little by giving this a try.  But I may not 
> have adequate
> knowledge to be useful.  After
>
> svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/ddd/branches/gddd
>
> I have a nice gddd directory.  I'm a little fuzzy on what the next step should 
> be.  I tried
>
> autoconf
>
> and got this
>
> configure.ac:59: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>        If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>        See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:154: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
> configure.ac:191: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LEX
> configure.ac:265: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> configure.ac:488: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
>
> Then tried automake and got
>
> configure.ac: error: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
> configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
> configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
> configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal)
> configure.ac:53: error: required file './config.guess' not found
> + many more complaints
>
>
> If you want to do some hand holding to get me further along, I will do some 
> checking of gddd,  It's
> quite understandable if you feel your time is better spent elsewhere.  I am on 
> an Gentoo system,
> with autoconf-2.69.

Autotools are version sensitive.  You are probably using
a version of autoconf or automake which is different from
that used previously.


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