Re: ./prepare fails

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

Jeff Hagen writes:
> Hello all,
> 
> 	I am trying to install the gnuplot beta so that I can play around with 
> histograms.... I get to the point of running prepare then it fails. It can 
> not find config.guess and config.sub....
> 
> A (long) log of activity follows... I have checked to make sure that it is not 
> in fact checking out those files.
> 
> Please CC me in any replies as I am not a member of the mailinglist.
 
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> 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
 
 I cannot reproduce this. Which versions of autoconf and automake are
 you using? gnuplot requires autoconf 2.52 or newer, and you really should
 use the latest versions available (autoconf 2.59/automake 1.9.5).