RE: Automake compile bug

[Love, Mr Gary]

Alexandre,

Thanks for all your support.  All previous problems have been solved.

I have compiled GNU make, tar, autoconf and automake and installed them
using --prefix=/users/love/gnu.

However, when I try to compile, only autoconf is found.  I've tried locating
the executables in various local directories and have made
/users/love/gnu/bin the first element in my path.  No matter what I do, I
get these make messages:

/data1/users/XGrads/irix6/DODS>make
.
.
.
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
.
.
.
as0: Error: Makefile.am.s, line0:Expected cpp-generated line number
(Compilation ends here.)

The Makefile.am.s file looks fine, as shown here:

## Process this file with Automake to create Makefile.in.

lib_LTLIBRARIES = libmd5.la
libmd5_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info "1:0:1"

libmd5_la_SOURCES = \
        md5.c \
        md5.h

DOCS := $(wildcard *.html)

EXTRA_DIST = \
        $(DOCS)

Thanks for your help,
Gary


-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:18 AM
To: Love, Mr Gary
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Automake compile bug


Please keep address@hidden in Cc: !

>>> "Love" == Love Mr Gary <address@hidden> writes:

 Love> Alexandre,
 Love> This is the offending line in
 Love> DODS/src/packages-3.2.4/libwww/modules/expat/Makefile
 Love> line 132:
 Love> DOCS := $(wildcard *.html *.gif)

This line use a GNU Make feature, no wonder IRIX Make chokes on it.

Still that's not an Automake issue.  That line was copied
straight from expat/Makefile.am (this is expected).

Either you have to install GNU Make and use it to compile the
program, or you can try to convince the expat/Makefile.am author
to not use GNU extensions so the resulting Makefile is more portable.

[...]

-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz