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

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

Here's my output:
brogar [59] cvs -z3 checkout gnuplot
cvs checkout: Updating gnuplot
U gnuplot/.cvsignore
U gnuplot/BUGS
[big snip]
U gnuplot/tutorial/tutorial.tex
cvs checkout: Updating gnuplot/win
brogar [60] cd gnuplot
brogar [61] ./prepare
rm -f Makefile.am Makefile.amt
sed -n '1,/^##m4-files-begin/p' Makefile.am.in > Makefile.amt
echo EXTRA_DIST = README Makefile.am.in buildvms.com config.* \
  djconfig.sh make_vms.com term_pc.h makefile.* | fmt | \
  (tr '\012' @; echo) |sed 's/@$/%/;s/@/ \\@/g' |tr @% '\012 ' >> Makefile.amt
sed -n '/^##m4-files-end/,$p' Makefile.am.in >> Makefile.amt
chmod a-w Makefile.amt
mv Makefile.amt Makefile.am
rm -f Makefile.am Makefile.amt
sed -n '1,/^##m4-files-begin/p' Makefile.am.in > Makefile.amt
echo EXTRA_DIST = Makefile.am.in *.bor *.cor *.dat *.dem *.fnc *.inc \
  sound.par sound2.par start.par webify.pl *.rot | fmt | \
  (tr '\012' @; echo) | sed 's/@$/%/;s/@/ \\@/g' | tr @% '\012 ' \
  >> Makefile.amt
sed -n '/^##m4-files-end/,$p' Makefile.am.in >> Makefile.amt
chmod a-w Makefile.amt
mv Makefile.amt Makefile.am
rm -f Makefile.am Makefile.amt
sed -n '1,/^##m4-files-begin/p' Makefile.am.in > Makefile.amt
echo EXTRA_DIST = README Makefile.am.in *.m4 | fmt | \
  (tr '\012' @; echo ) \
  |sed 's/@$/%/;s/@/ \\@/g' |tr @% '\012 ' \
  >> Makefile.amt
sed -n '/^##m4-files-end/,$p' Makefile.am.in >> Makefile.amt
chmod a-w Makefile.amt
mv Makefile.amt Makefile.am
rm -f Makefile.am Makefile.amt
sed -n '1,/^##trm-files-begin/p' Makefile.am.in > Makefile.amt
echo CORETERM = *.trm | fmt | (tr '\012' @; echo) \
  |sed 's/@$/%/;s/@/ \\@/g' | tr @% '\012 ' \
  >> Makefile.amt
sed -n '/^##trm-files-end/,$p' Makefile.am.in >> Makefile.amt
chmod a-w Makefile.amt
mv Makefile.amt Makefile.am
rm -f Makefile.am Makefile.amt
sed -n '1,/^##plt-files-begin/p' Makefile.am.in > Makefile.amt
echo PLT_FILES = *.plt | fmt | (tr '\012' @; echo ) \
  |sed 's/@$/%/;s/@/ \\@/g;' | tr @% '\012 ' >> Makefile.amt
sed -n '/^##plt-files-end/,$p' Makefile.am.in >> Makefile.amt
chmod a-w Makefile.amt
mv Makefile.amt Makefile.am
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 

brogar [61] autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

brogar [62] automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6

brogar [63] ls -ld co*
drwxr-xr-x  3 merritt 25  4096 Jul 13 14:20 config
-rw-r--r--  1 merritt 25 12217 Jul 13 14:20 config.hin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 merritt 25 30815 Jul  8 17:25 configure.in
-rwxr-xr-x  1 merritt 25 20472 Jan  7  2004 configure.vms


So I have a somewhat older version of automake, although
it seems to be the newest one available as an rpm.

I'll try building a newer version and report back.

Meanwhile, here is the tail end of the output from make:

makeinfo -I. ./gnuplot.texi --no-split --output=gnuplot.info
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merritt/cvs/gnuplot-cvs/docs'
Making all in lisp
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merritt/cvs/gnuplot-cvs/lisp'
/bin/sh ./../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
mkdir -p -- /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/emacs': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-els] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merritt/cvs/gnuplot-cvs/lisp'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merritt/cvs/gnuplot-cvs'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2