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Re: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE calls in gettext need square brackets around args?
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE calls in gettext need square brackets around args? |
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Sun, 13 May 2007 03:33:39 +0200 |
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Perry Rapp wrote:
> Further along in trying to autobuild gettext from cvs,
> (and using automake 1.10 and autoconf-2.61)
> I got this error:
>
> == BEGIN QUOTE
>
> .../../gettext-tools/configure: line 1754: syntax error near unexpected token
> `gettext-tools,'
> .../../gettext-tools/configure: line 1754: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gettext-tools,
> $VERSION_NUMBER)'
> configure: error: ../../gettext-tools/configure failed for gettext-tools
>
> == END QUOTE
This indicates that your installation of autoconf does not find the macros
installed by automake.
There are also a few other prerequisites; see the comments in gettext's
autogen.sh.
> Based on this web page
>
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Macro-Definitions
>
> I suspect that the arguments to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in the file
> ./gettext-tools/configure.ac
> should have square brackets added around them, e.g., from this
>
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gettext-tools, $VERSION_NUMBER)
>
>
> to one of the following two (I'm not sure which):
>
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gettext-tools], $VERSION_NUMBER)
>
> or
>
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gettext-tools], [$VERSION_NUMBER])
This is harmless. It cannot be the cause of the error that you got.
Bruno