Re: gEDA-user: gaf build mystery

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Griessen wrote:
> Peter Clifton wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 19:30 +0100, Carlos Nieves Ónega wrote:
>>> Are you sure you have the aclocal command?
>> This is the thing to check... as the error message regarding versions
>> comes from our autogen.sh script. It reports that same message for any
>> condition it can't find aclocal..
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>> my /usr/bin/aclocal is a symlink:
>> /usr/bin/aclocal -> /etc/alternatives/aclocal
>>
>> and that is a symlink back to version 1.10:
>> /etc/alternatives/aclocal -> /usr/bin/aclocal-1.10
>>
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> 
> Thanks Carlos, Peter, these clues got me compiling with repaired symlinks
> in my debian installation.
> 
> 
> I still get a problem:
> 
> Configuring libgeda version 1.1.2.20070818
> ./configure: line 1719: syntax error near unexpected token `$PACKAGE,'
> ./configure: line 1719: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $DOTTED_VERSION, no-define)'

that indicates a broken automake/autoconf installation.  If you have 
automake installed somwhere different than what autoconf thinks, you'll 
have to add/set ACLOCAL_FLAGS (see the autogen.sh script) to help it 
out.  Whats happening is that the configure.ac file has the 
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro, but that macro never gets defined and hence not 
expanded and it shows up directly in the configure script.

Basically when autogen.sh calls aclocal, the wrong thing happens.

-Dan



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