Re: Bugs in lisp sections of ./prepare and make

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

 
> Starting from a fresh download of the CVS source, I see
> ./prepare
> [various stuff]
> automake: configure.in: required file `../config.guess' not found
> automake: configure.in: required file `../config.sub' not found
> Some part of the preparation process failed.
> Please refer to INSTALL for details.
> 
> This failure comes specifically from the line
> 	cd lisp && aclocal && automake && autoconf
> 
> This problem is overcome by doing
> 	touch ./config.guess ./config.sub; ./prepare
 
 Maybe your build environment is out of date? I cannot reproduce it.

> However, I still have the problem from some time back
> that the lisp target in the default make sequence tries to
> write files to
> 	/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 
 Another indication that your build environment, specifically automake,
 may be out of date.