Re: gEDA-user: autoconf and pcb

[Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Autogen.sh is supposed to run automake, autoconf, autoheader, etc.
They're supposed to be run in a particular order, which is why they've
been conveniently grouped together into autogen.sh.

If you just run autoconf alone, then you won't necessarily have set up
all the other stuff needed for normal compilation.  You might get a
configure file, but it many not have all the macros in it fully
expanded.  Chances are good that compilation will fail during
configure or somewhere later on....

From your error, it looks like you don't have automake version 1.9.
You probably have an earlier one.  You need to upgrade.

The autotools are very finnicky about versioning.  They are also a
something of a PITA.  However, they're easier to use than hand-writing
a configure script for a big, cross-platform application.  Also, since
they're supposed to be used only by developers, it's allegedly OK
that they are not user friendly.

Here are some tutorials about autotool basics which I Googled up:

http://markuskimius.wikidot.com/programming:tut:autotools
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html

HTH,

Stuart



On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Peter Wiley-Cordone wrote:

> It appears as though I had to run autogen.sh instead of autoconf and
> was able to get configure to run.
>
> Pete
>
> On Feb 16, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Peter Wiley-Cordone wrote:
>
>> I've grabbed the pcb head branch from git and am trying to build it.
>> I ran autoconf then ./configure and I get the following error:
>>
>> ./configure: line 1899: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.9)'
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?  I haven't dug into configure
>> documentation to see why.
>>
>> I'm doing this on mac osx.
>>
>> Pete
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