bug#20733: coreutils build problem

[Michael Felt]

an incremental build - isn't that what applying a patch to an official release is. A fresh checkout is 'all patches' and difficult to replicate, once another patch is applied.

Or I am just too old of a dog and having trouble learning this new trick :)

As far as above is concerned - I had automake 1.15 installed. I removed it and installed automake-1.14.1 and the 'complaint' went away when I ran automake.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

On 06/05/2015 05:13 AM, Michael Felt wrote:
> I think I still have automake 1.14 lying around, but would be nice if
> automake-1.15 would have just accepted the patch :)
>
> *Most important - the patch seems to be working!* At least I got farther...
>
> On my "bare system" - initially NO extras installed to find 'hard', i.e.,
> real dependencies.
>
> address@hidden:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23]make
>   GEN      lib/alloca.h
>   GEN      lib/arpa/inet.h
>   GEN      ./src/single-binary.mk
>  cd . && /bin/sh /data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23/build-aux/missing
> automake-1.14 --gnu Makefile
> /data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23/build-aux/missing[81]:
> automake-1.14:  not found.
> WARNING: 'automake-1.14' is missing on your system.

That says you are doing an incremental build, but have updated automake
in the meantime.  Do 'autoreconf -f' to pick up the new automake version
into your generated Makefile.in files, and it should fix this issue.

A fresh checkout rather than an incremental build would also work.

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