Re: Chicken and Egg Problem

[Chris Williams]

Nevermind.  I got it working.

Thank you.


On 6/26/07 3:02 PM, "Chris Williams" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm a noob, be gentle.
> 
> I'm trying to compile a program, and it's puking needing aclocal, which I
> cannot find anywhere on my system.
> 
> So... I download automake, which everyone says "contains aclocal".  But it
> doesn't??  Maybe I need to compile it.  So I try to compile it.  But it
> needs autoconf.
> 
> So... I download an build autoconf, all is good.
> 
> When I go to build automake I get:
> 
> # ./configure
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... //bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for tex... no
> checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
> checking whether autoconf works... yes
> checking whether autoconf is recent enough... yes
> checking whether ln works... yes
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... //bin/grep
> checking for egrep... //bin/grep -E
> checking for fgrep... //bin/grep -F
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating doc/Makefile
> config.status: creating lib/Automake/Makefile
> config.status: creating lib/Automake/tests/Makefile
> config.status: creating lib/Makefile
> config.status: creating lib/am/Makefile
> config.status: creating m4/Makefile
> config.status: creating tests/Makefile
> config.status: creating tests/defs
> config.status: creating tests/aclocal-1.10
> config.status: creating tests/automake-1.10
> # make
> cd . && perllibdir=/usr/local/automake-1.10"/lib:./lib"
> /usr/local/automake-1.10/aclocal --acdir=m4 -I m4
> /bin/sh: /usr/local/automake-1.10/aclocal: No such file or directory
> make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127
> #
> 
> It seems I have a chicken/egg problem.  Clearly I'm missing something.  Any
> help?
> 
> Chris
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