Re: configure failure in vsllib

[Andreas Zeller]

Hi!

Andrew Pickin <Andrew.Pickin@aethos.co.uk> writes:

> Follow is output from configure on solaris 2.6...
> 
> ...
> ...
> creating examples/Makefile
> creating shlib/Makefile
> creating config.h
> config.h is unchanged
> configuring in vsllib
> running /bin/sh ./configure  --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.6
> --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> loading cache .././config.cache
> checking for prefix by checking for ddd... (cached) /usr/local/bin/ddd
> ./configure: DDD_VERSION: not found
> ./configure: syntax error at line 586: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' unexpected
> configure: error: ./configure failed for vsllib
> 
> Any ideas?

For some reason, the configuration files are broken.  (This happens
when the `automake'-generated Makefile tries to rebuild itself.)

Here's a sequence that will rebuild them all (taken from the
README-CVS file which tells you how to build DDD from the CVS
repository):

   $ (cd ddd && aclocal)
   $ autoconf -l ddd
   $ automake --gnu --add-missing --copy --verbose
   $ (cd ddd && autoconf && automake --foreign --add-missing --copy --verbose)
   $ (cd vsllib && autoconf -l ../ddd && automake --foreign --verbose)
   $ (cd themes && autoconf -l ../ddd && automake --foreign --verbose)
   $ (cd readline && autoconf)
   $ (cd termcap && autoconf)

After that, you can simply enter `./configure' and proceed as usual.

Andreas

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