Re: Compiling from GIT

[Hans Aberg]

On 9 Feb 2011, at 21:01, Andy Wingo wrote:

>> I made a new system installation, and now the GIT version does not
>> generate 'configure'. I thought one should just run ./autogen.sh;
>> however, this fails, because autoconf (called via autoreconf in this
>> script) cannot find gettext.m4, which is in /usr/local/share/aclocal/,
>> which should be copied into ./m4/.
> 
> Sounds like you're installing things to multiple prefixes (/usr and
> /usr/local in your case, presumably).

I'm on Mac OS X, so originally, there is no /usr/local/, but packages that one 
takes down, compiled using ./configure && make, typically ends up there.

>> I can't see if it is a problem with Guile's configure.ac or some
>> installation problem with autoconf-2.68 that makes it not looking into
>> /usr/local/share.
> 
> autoconf will look in /usr/local iff it is installed to /usr/local,
> iirc.


There is one
  $ /usr/bin/autoconf --version
  autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
and I installed
  $ /usr/local/bin/autoconf --version
  autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
The ./autogen.sh script writes the version number, so it is clear that the 
latter is being called.

However, it uses /usr/share/aclocal/, not /usr/local/share/aclocal/. I can see 
that by changing the name of the former - it still does not work. But if I in 
addition set a symbolic link to the latter, then it works.