Re: ./prepare fails

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 14 March 2005 09:34 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:

> > It seems to be a recent autoconf bug.
> 
> How recent, i.e. what version numbers are we talking about here?  It'd 
> have to be an automake bug actually, since automake is generating that 
> error message, not autoconf.

autoconf2.5-2.59-3
automake 1.8.3-1

 
> > There is a similar long-standing problem with the way gnuplot's
> > ./configure file tries to initialize the local lisp directories.
> 
> What exactly is the issue (and why am I not experiencing it here?)

I have explained this at length twice previously.
In a nutshell, when you run ./configure it tries to create new files
gnuplot.* in a system directory
	/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/

Unless you are running as root, you don't have write access to this
directory, so it fails.

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