RE: Unable to compile automake

[John Frankish]

Thanks for the reply

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Wildenhues [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 11 May, 2009 10:16
To: John Frankish
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Unable to compile automake

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

I got the source from the site above - I'm using tinycorelinux with an ext2 
file system

?  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.

I'll try to use ./bootstrap from git with the 1.10.2 source - thanks

Your reply got me to thinking - I'd been unpacking the source the lazy way - 
double-clicking in emelfm and copying to /usr/src - which set the all of the 
contents to the current time/date. Copying the tarball to /usr/src and then 
"tar xjf ..." preserved the original time/date stamp and now things work

Thanks again.