Re: Compiling from GIT

[Hans Aberg]

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

> On Wed 09 Feb 2011 11:40, Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> 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 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.

It turns out that one must install automake too, which contains aclocal - 
otherwise the one in /usr/bin will be chosen, and it will chose files without 
/usr/local. Then it works as it should, modulo that gcc internal segmentation 
fault.