Re: [bug-gawk] gawk-4.1.4: error when running autotools

[Timo Gurr]

Hi Arnold,

2016-08-29 17:12 GMT+02:00  <address@hidden>:
> Are you using the tar ball? You should have no reason to be running
> the autotools in that case. From the git repo, you should run ./bootstrap.sh
> and then run ./configure directly; again, no reason for anyone but me
> to run the autotools.

yes we're using the tarball. We're altering the extension/Makefile.in
because there's a problem when building gawk in a cross environment.

# During building gawk is called which can't be run when cross compiling
edo sed -e '/check-recursive all-recursive: check-for-shared-lib-support/d' \
    -i extension/Makefile.in

So we need to run autotools afterwards.

> In any case, are you really using autoconf 2.5?  Autoconf 2.69 is the current
> version and that's what gawk expects.

The Autoconf version which is run is indeed 2.69. 2.5 is just the name
of the slot it resides in for our package manager to work properly.

Regards
Timo