#1 Can't build - automake woes
I tried downloading and building rdiff-backup and librsync on my
Mandrake 8.1 system. In the librsync directory ./configure ran
okay, but when I ran make it output:
cd . && automake --gnu --include-deps Makefile
configure.in:16: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
comes from an
configure.in:16: old Automake version. You should recreate
aclocal.m4
configure.in:16: with aclocal and run automake again.
Makefile.am:21: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
Makefile.am:22: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
Makefile.am:23: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
Makefile.am:24: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
/usr/local/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does
not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/local/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does
not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/local/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does
not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/local/share/automake-1.6/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP
does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
I have librsync 0.9.5.1. I'm running automake 1.6 and autoconf
2.53. My ultimate goal is to build this on my Mac OSX 10.2
system (which gives the same errors and runs the same versions
of automake and autoconf).
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I see you have attached a patch for Mac OSX compatibility?
Does this mean the patch you submitted includes a fix for
this bug? Can I close this bug when that patch is accepted?
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I see no patch attached, nor do I recall attaching one. -Skip
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A simple patch for Mac OSX was submitted by montanaro and
committed to CVS (select status "any" to see closed
patches). There have also been many changes in the
autoconf/automake files committed to CVS.
It seems the 0.9.5.1 release provided with rdiff-backup had
some strange timestamps on the provided files that caused it
to re-build the Makefile leading to automake version clashes.
You shouldn't encounter the same problem with the current
cvs and a recent autoconf/autmake toolset. I'm closing this
bug, but feel free to re-open it if you encounter the same
thing with the cvs version.