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Re: basic help for bare-boned newbie
From: |
Peter Jay Salzman |
Subject: |
Re: basic help for bare-boned newbie |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:39:08 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
hi akim,
first, thank you for responding!
i finally did find out what was wrong: autoconf 2.5x and 2.13 debian
packages were both installed on my system. the *packages* don't
conflict but the programs do. inadvertantly, some of what i did used
the 2.5 tools and some used the 2.13 tools.
i made sure to use only the 2.5x tools, and lo and behold it worked. a
configure script was generated and it almost ran to completion.
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../..
/usr/bin/install is on my system, and is also in my PATH. but according
to the autoconf info page:
- Macro: AC_PROG_INSTALL
Set output variable `INSTALL' to the path of a BSD compatible
`install' program, if one is found in the current `PATH'.
Otherwise, set `INSTALL' to `DIR/install-sh -c', checking the
directories specified to `AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR'
the info page also says that AC_PROG_INSTALL filters out "install"
implementations that are known to be buggy, but i doubt GNU install is
buggy.
i was able to get configure to complete successfully by commenting out
AC_PROG_INSTALL in configure.in, but that's a bandaid fix. how can i
get configure to recognize /usr/bin/install?
pete
begin Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
>
> | hi all,
> | i'm trying to learn autoconf by converting one of my programs to use
> | autoconf. i'm having difficulty; here's what i tried:
> |
> | % cp Makefile Makefile.orig
> | % mv Makefile Makefile.in
> | % autoscan
> | % mv configure.scan configure.in
> | % autoheader
> | % autoconf
> | autoconf: Undefined macros:
> | configure.in:22:AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE
> | configure.in:23:AC_FUNC_MALLOC
> | configure.in:27:AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> | configure.in:3:AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([xpose.c])
> | address@hidden ./configure
> | configure: error: can not find sources in . or ..
> |
> | the tutorial i'm using claimed that this should've worked. clearly
> | autoconf _should_ know macro functions like AC_FUNC_MALLOC, so i must be
> | missing a very basic and obvious step.
>
> How bizarre... How about giving the version number? Of autoscan and
> autoconf.
>
> | can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong?
> |
> | thanks!
> | pete
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