[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Build Problem

[Anthony V]

With the help of Josh Blum I was able to build the trunk. I was using
autoconf 2.59 which does not have the docdir. Installing newer
versions of the autotools fixed the problem.

-DarkAnt

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Anthony V <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm trying to build from the trunk. I'm able to configure and make
> without any problems, but when I try to make install I get an error on
> this line:
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../../README.hacking -3.1svn
> with the error stating that -3 is not a valid argument. It turns out
> that -3.1svn is a folder in the gnuradio/gnuradio-core/doc folder. I
> just deleted the -3.1svn folder hoping it was an artifact of some
> sort(hey, I can dream) and I ran configure + make again. The folder
> was not there this time so I figured all was well. When I ran make
> install the -3.1svn folder was apparently created again, causing make
> install to fail again for the same reason. Hoping that this was just
> an isolated instance in the /gnuradio-core/doc folder I edited the
> Makefile.am in the /gnuradio-core/ to ignore the /doc folder. I then
> ran configure, make and make install. Once again make install failed,
> but this time at a different spot. Another -3.1svn* folder was created
> in gr-trellis/doc. With the help of bpadalino on IRC we found this
> line in the makefiles:
> gr_docdir = $(docdir)-$(VERSION)
> It looks like for whatever reason $docdir is not getting defined or is
> getting defined as whitespace. With the gnuradio version being 3.1 I
> ended up with all of my doc folders having some form of a -3.1svn
> folder in them. What is causing $docdir to not be defined properly?
>
> Thanks,
> DarkAnt
>