Re: ./prepare fails

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Jeff Hagen wrote:
> 	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....

That's quite wrong indeed --- it's not supposed to need those files, so 
it shouldn't be looking for them.

[...]
> 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

These are from running the preparation rules in 'tutorial'.  The next 
step is to run aclocal, automake and autoconf in 'lisp':

> automake: configure.in: required file `../config.guess' not found
> automake: configure.in: required file `../config.sub' not found

There are references in the lisp/configure I get from autoconf-2.58,
but neither aclocal nor automake of version 1.7.9 emits this error, 
AFAICS.  This points to some local auto-tools hickup on your end.