Re: [gcmd-dev] Re: autogen: missing M4 macros

[Piotr Eljasiak]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 05:22 +0200, Micha wrote:
> 
> checking for automake >= 1.8...
>   testing automake-1.8... not found.
>   testing automake-1.9... not found.
> ***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.8 installed
> 
> | i had automke1.4, it never got upgraded since their weird naming
> scheme.
> 
> "Automake 1.9 fails to work in a number of situations that Automake
>  1.4, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 did, so has been renamed so that the previous
>  version can continue to be made available."
> 
> There's the generic meta package "automake" 
> (and alternatively "automaken" which is quite confusing)
> but they are not installable, just referring to automake1.4.
> 
> Question: Is this 1.4 one still necessary even if 1.9 is installed ? 
> 
> I deinstalled 1.4 for now. Let's see. ok, so here we go....
> it's compiling now. i attach the first part of the log so far.
> The make part contains many errors.
> 
> Another question: 
> Do i really need to still run 'configure' after 'autogen' ?
> Looks like this is redundant...
> 

Definitely - yes. autogen.sh calls configure


BTW - I've found in your log:

(B/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:20: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_PATH_TCLCONFIG
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:124: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_PATH_TKCONFIG
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:228: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_LOAD_TCLCONFIG
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:295: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_LOAD_TKCONFIG
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:332: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_PROG_TCLSH
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:378: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_BUILD_TCLSH
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:406: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_ENABLE_SHARED
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:446: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_ENABLE_FRAMEWORK
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:501: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_ENABLE_THREADS
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:600: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:657: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_ENABLE_LANGINFO
/usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4:708: warning: underquoted definition of
SC_CONFIG_MANPAGES

<snip>


This is cause by errors in usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4 ...



Do you have any problems with building gcmd from cvs sources ? I can't
grok it from your log... 

And another question - if you are able to make & install it - do you
have help working (F1)?


Piotr