Re: CVS, bootstrapping and DJGPP

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, 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

I have run into this error message before under Cygwin.  My
recollection is vague, but I believe that the solution was to manually
erradicate all traces of the existing Autoconf and Automake installs
and install from scratch.  Some old file is throwing it off.

Bob
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