Re: Autogen problems on Lion 3.5.91

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Robinson, Melvin D wrote:

> I sent this to the wrong e-mail address.
> From: Robinson, Melvin D
> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 10:42 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Autogen problems on Lion 3.5.91
> 
> Happy New Year!
>  
> Can someone give me some ideas as to what's wrong with my MacOS X Lion 
> configuration that would cause this error when trying to run autogen.sh:
>  
> bootstrapping...
> build-aux/bootstrap: Error: --no-git requires --gnulib-srcdir
>  
> I've installed MacPorts and am following Ben Abbott's wonderful instructions 
> on this page:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-bug-tracker/2011-12/msg00306.html
>  
> Well, everything went fine except that the build bombed on the when building 
> the final documentation, then I realized that I had not auto gen'd before 
> configuring (a problem that Marco helped me out on on this list).  So after 
> trying to ./autogen.sh I received the above error.  Git is on my system in 
> /usr/bin/git and does seem to work because I tried to follow John Eaton's 
> instruction on this page: 
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/gnulib-install-hang-td3305507.html .  
> Here the final suggestion of git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib gnulib 
> indeed downloads the sources, but bootstrap warns of not using checked out 
> sources and goes no further.
>  
> Any ideas of what I should try next?

To run autogen.sh, you need to install git.

        sudo port install git

However, if you are trying to build the 3.5.91 snapshot you don't need to do 
that.

There are other dependencies you will need. I recommend you start by building 
the octave-devel port. This will ensure you have all the needed dependencies.

        sudo port build octave-devel +docs+fltk

After that, the instructions I provided for Lukas should work for you.

Ben