Re: Unable to compile automake

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello John,

* John Frankish wrote on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 07:20:08AM CEST:
> 
> I'm trying to compile automake-1.10.2 with gcc-4.2.2, autoconf-2.63,
> perl-5.8.8 and get this:
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> $ make
> cd . && perllibdir=/usr/src/automake-1.10.2"/lib:./lib" 
> /usr/src/automake-1.10.2/aclocal --acdir=m4 -I m4
> /bin/sh: /usr/src/automake-1.10.2/aclocal: not found
> make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127

This usually means that time stamps have been messed up, either in the
tarball or while extracting it.  What system and file system are you
doing this on, and did you pull the tarball from
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.10.2.tar.gz

?  Running ./bootstrap is a way around this, but it is so far not
shipped with distribution tarballs, only in the git source tree,
as the tarball should not need it.

Cheers,
Ralf