Re: automake "internal error" trying to build gpsd

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Rich Wales wrote on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 07:57:49PM CET:
> I attempted to build the "gpsd" sources (gpsd.berlios.de) on an OpenBSD 4.6
> system, using autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10.  I'm getting the following:
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> 
> automake: ####################
> automake: ## Internal Error ##
> automake: ####################
> automake: unrequested trace `include'
> automake: Please contact <address@hidden>.
>  at /usr/local/share/automake-1.10/Automake/Channels.pm line 570
>         Automake::Channels::msg('automake', '', 'unrequested trace
> `include\'') called at /usr/local/share/automake-1.10/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
> line 191
>         Automake::ChannelDefs::prog_error('unrequested trace `include\'')
> called at /usr/local/bin/automake line 4823
>         Automake::scan_autoconf_traces('configure.ac') called at
> /usr/local/bin/automake line 5046
>         Automake::scan_autoconf_files() called at /usr/local/bin/automake line
> 7811

Hmm.  Can you run
  AUTOCONF="autoconf --verbose --debug" \
  automake --verbose --add-missing --foreign --copy  --include-deps

and post the output as well as (gzip'ed) the files from the leftover
temporary directory mentioned in the output (typically /tmp/am4t...).

I see that their trunk INSTALL file mentions some failures with recent
autotools.  It would be nice to see those failures, too, if they are
different from yours.  Maybe we introduced some regression we are not
yet aware of.

Thanks,
Ralf