Re: error when building

[Harry Thijssen]

I was building from Ben's daily tarball which is, as far as I know, identical to a released tarball.

BTW it happens in the second build after a distclean. So maybe the problem has soemthing to do with disctclean.

So it is a bug?

Have fun

2017-03-09 6:58 GMT+01:00 John Darrington <address@hidden>:

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:38:36PM +0100, Harry Thijssen wrote:

     When I try to build pspp for MSWindows I get:

     /usr/bin/sed -e '/^"POT-Creation-Date: /d' po/zh_CN.po,tmp >
     po/zh_CN.po,tmp2
     rm -f po/zh_CN.po,tmp
     mv po/zh_CN.po,tmp2 po/zh_CN.po
     POFILES="po/ca.po po/de.po po/el.po po/es.po po/fr.po po/gl.po po/hu.po
     po/ja.po po/lt.po po/nl.po po/pl.po po/pt_BR.po po/ru.po po/sl.po po/tr.po
     po/uk.po po/zh_CN.po" top_builddir="." /bin/sh
     src/ui/gui/gen-dot-desktop.sh > src/ui/gui/pspp.desktop
     /bin/sh ./build-aux/missing --run autom4te --language=autotest -I '.' tests/
     testsuite.at | /usr/bin/sed 's/@<00A0>@/ /g' > tests/testsuite.tmp
     ./build-aux/missing: line 81: autom4te: command not found
     WARNING: 'autom4te' is missing on your system.
              You might have modified some maintainer files that require
              the 'autom4te' program to be rebuilt.
              The 'autom4te' program is part of the GNU Autoconf package:
              <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
              It also requires GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
              <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
              <http://www.perl.org/>
     test -s tests/testsuite.tmp
     Makefile:12456: recipe for target 'tests/testsuite' failed
     make[2]: *** [tests/testsuite] Error 1


     Is this an error?

It depends:

If you are building from a released tarball, then the answer is "yes".

However, if you are building from (say) a git snapshot, then "no"; it means
that you haven't got autoconf installed (or your system can't find it).
See the file README.Git for details of what exactly you need to build
from a Git checkout.

HTH,

J'


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