Re: ./prepare fails

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Saturday 12 March 2005 07:39 pm, 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....
> 
> 
> Yes.
> I have that same problem.
> It seems to be a recent autoconf bug.

How recent, i.e. what version numbers are we talking about here?  It'd 
have to be an automake bug actually, since automake is generating that 
error message, not autoconf.

> The work-around is to create empty instances of these files before hand,
> and they will be replaced with correct ones.

That would mean we have to consider changing the automake invocation 
options in 'prepare' to include -a -c options to all invocations of
automake (not just the main one), or at least to run automake in the 
top-level directory *before* doing so in 'lisp'.

> There is a similar long-standing problem with the way gnuplot's
> ./configure file tries to initialize the local lisp directories.

What exactly is the issue (and why am I not experiencing it here?)