[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: error compiling gnuradio trunk

[Achilleas Anastasopoulos]

I found out that

AC_PROG_MKDIR_P is defined only on autoconf 2.60, while
gnuradio requires only autoconf 2.57 and above.

After a google search, I found this patch:

# AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
# is a backport of autoconf-2.60's AC_PROG_MKDIR_P.
# Remove this macro when we can assume autoconf >= 2.60.
m4_ifdef([AC_PROG_MKDIR_P], [], [
  AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_MKDIR_P],
    [AC_REQUIRE([AM_PROG_MKDIR_P])dnl defined by automake
     MKDIR_P='$(mkdir_p)'
     AC_SUBST([MKDIR_P])])])
AC_PROG_MKDIR_P

I put this in the configure.ac file and it seems that it works now.

I have no idea about these programs, so can someone apply this/or a more 
appropriate fix.

Thanks
Achilleas










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After a bit of searching I think the problem is as follows:

Since AC_PROG_MKDIR_P is reported undefined, this propagates to the
corresponding Makefiles,

eg in

gnuradio-corse/docs/Makefile

which contains the line

MKDIR_P =

so later on when it tries to execute

$(MKDIR_P) html

in order to create the html directory it executes instead

html

thus the error in make.

So my question is now, why in the first place this happens, and secondly,
what is the best way to fix it.

Thanks
Achilleas







I am trying to install gnuradio from trunk to a
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 5 (Tikanga)"

Bootstrap gives the following error:
---------
configure.ac:85: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
        If this token and others are legitimate, please use
m4_pattern_allow.
        See the Autoconf documentation.
---------

Then configure executes with the following error messages
----
caen-vnc04% ./myconf > foo.log
./configure: line 5091: AC_PROG_MKDIR_P: command not found
pgf77-Error-Unknown switch: -print-search-dirs
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
      If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
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Finally, make stops with the following message:
------
make[4]: Entering directory
`/afs/umich.edu/user/a/n/anastas/gnuradio_trunk_test/gnuradio-core/doc'
html
make[4]: html: Command not found
make[4]: *** [prep] Error 127
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/afs/umich.edu/user/a/n/anastas/gnuradio_trunk_test/gnuradio-core/doc'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/afs/umich.edu/user/a/n/anastas/gnuradio_trunk_test/gnuradio-core/doc'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/afs/umich.edu/user/a/n/anastas/gnuradio_trunk_test/gnuradio-core'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/afs/umich.edu/user/a/n/anastas/gnuradio_trunk_test'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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I don't know why "html" is needed or what it is, but apparently cannot
be found.

Any ideas?

Achilleas