Re: CVS, bootstrapping and DJGPP

[Robert Boehne]

Richard,

It looks to me like automake isn't installed correctly.  Automake
provides macros like AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to Autoconf, so Autoconf
needs to find them.

HTH,

Robert

Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I've been trying to bootstrap a CVS check-out of libtool and I've hit some
> problems. The problems occur when I run the "boostrap" script. I'm using the
> DJGPP ports of autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.2.
> 
> Firstly, I keep getting the following message:
> 
> configure.ac: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' must be used
> automake: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
> automake: old Automake version.  You should recreate aclocal.m4
> automake: with aclocal and run automake again.
> automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified
> 
> So I ran aclocal and re-ran bootstrap. I got the same error message. I also
> tried changing the following in configure.ac:
> 
>      AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME, AC_PACKAGE_VERSION)
> 
> to have no arguments, []-quoted arguments, etc., but that made no difference.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem? If not, then it must be a problem with the
> DJGPP port of automake 1.7.2.
> 
> Secondly, bootstrap doesn't seem to create any Makefile.in files. The line
> that runs automake is:
> 
>      eval $AUTOMAKE $AUTOMAKE_FLAGS
> 
> Shouldn't there be a Makefile name after that? Also, shouldn't the script
> create Makefile.in in the top-level directory and doc directories?
> 
> Thanks, regards,
> 
> --
> Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]
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