Re: CVS, bootstrapping and DJGPP

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 
> 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.

I re-installed autoconf & automake, but that didn't help.

On further investigation it seems to be a bug in the DJGPP port of automake.
There's something weird going on with the autoconf --traces, which means it
doesn't find AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.

Oh well, thanks for the suggestions!

Regards,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]