Re: [Autogen-users] building from git repository

[Bruce K. <bru...@gm...>]

>From SCM, autogen must be bootstrapped.
Its bootstrap was written long before gnulib's bootstrap and it is a little
out of hand.  Someday, I'll fix it, but I have a life outside of this and I'm
daunted.  Anyway, WRT configured files, the list is not nearly as dynamic
as it was a decade ago, so I could probably drop all that fanciness and just
list them.  That ought to be easy.

Bottom line:  either run config/bootstrap or extract the shar archive
in noag-boot.sh.
(BTW, source forge's GIT is more recent than GNU.  A habit I probably ought to
start changing.....)

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
<nm...@gn...> wrote:
> Hello,
>  I tried to build autogen from the git repository, but I cannot generate
> configure. If I run autoconf (2.68) I get errors on the use of AC_INIT.
> automake (1.11) also complains with an error:
>
> automake: no `Makefile.am' found for any configure output
> automake: Did you forget AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) in configure.ac?
>
> I attach a fix for the autoconf error, but it seems I might be missing
> something. Is configure.ac auto-generated somehow?