Re: [Hamlib-developer] stuck ...

[Stephane F. <f8...@fr...>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002, Ernest Stracener wrote:
> I'm using RH 7.3 for this test of the current CVS.  It has:
> aclocal-1.5  (default is 1.4)
> automake-1.5 (default is 1.4p5)
> autoheader-2.53 
> autoconf-2.53 (default is 2.13)
> libtool-1.4.2 

I use automake-1.6 here, but 1.5 should be okay.

> ---------------------------------------
> Following Stephane's advice I have run:
> $ aclocal-1.5
> aclocal: both `configure.ac' and `configure.in' present: ignoring 
> `configure.in'

hey, there shouldn't be any configure.in around!
Can you try again with a clean check out?

> $ autoheader-2.53
> autoheader-2.53: warning: `configure.ac' and `configure.in' both present.
>  at /usr/bin/autoheader-2.53 line 110
> autoheader-2.53: warning: proceeding with `configure.ac'.
>  at /usr/bin/autoheader-2.53 line 110
> configure.ac:6: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst
> configure.ac:360: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
> autoheader-2.53: `include/config.h.in' is unchanged
> $ automake-1.5 -a
> automake-1.5: both `configure.ac' and `configure.in' present: ignoring 
> `configure.in'
> $ autoconf-2.53
> autoconf-2.53: warning: both `configure.ac' and `configure.in' are present.
> autoconf-2.53: warning: proceeding with `configure.ac'.
> $ ./configure;make
> 
> As noted, I get a few errors with each step, but it generally proceeds OK 
> until a bit into make, where everything stops with the following tail error:
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> (lots of make messages)...
> creating testcpp
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ernie/CVS/hamlib-1.1.4cvs/c++'
> Making all in bindings
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ernie/CVS/hamlib-1.1.4cvs/bindings'
> swig -perl5 -shadow  -I../include -I../src -I../lib -o hamlibperl_wrap.c 
> hamlib.swg
> Generating wrappers for Perl 5
> hamlib.swg : Line 40. Syntax error in input.
> hamlib.swg : Line 54. Syntax error in input.
> hamlib.swg : Line 79.  Missing semicolon. Reached end of input.
> make[1]: *** [hamlibperl_wrap.c] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ernie/CVS/hamlib-1.1.4cvs/bindings'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

This is because you have swig installed, but not the right version.
You need either to unstall it, or upgrade to at least version 1.3.14.
And yes, configure should check for version too. added to my TODO list
(patch welcome anyway :)


Cheers,
Stephane