Re: [LTP] [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Intermediate release for FEB'10

[Garrett C. <yan...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Garrett Cooper <yan...@gm...> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Iranna D Ankad <ira...@in...>wrote:
>
>>
>> << Iranna,
>> <<I've stumbled down this bloody hole too many times to know that we
>> should NOT be too hasty in jumping down here again.
>> << 1. How did you compile everything (STEP BY STEP... from scratch after
>> getting autotools, etc)?
>> << 2. If you are running autotools, you DO realize that you're running
>> with an incompatible copy of autoconf, correct? INSTALL explicitly states:
>>
>> Hi Garrett,
>> I am running one of the RHEL distro's with default versions of make,
>> automake & autoconf. As you pointed out may be my OS has older versions of
>> automake & autoconf than recommended but I am running right version of make
>> (i.e make-3.81-3.el5). I think, when I am just building LTP using make, I do
>> not think autoconf will interfere here?
>>
>> Here are the steps I am using to compile LTP:
>> #./configure
>> # make
>> ........... hitting reported build errors here ............
>>
>
>     Please run `make ac-clean', then run `./configure ; make' . It looks
> like the tarball wasn't purged of all configure generated files.
> Thanks,
> -Garrett
>

Make sure to save aclocal.m4 though -- it shouldn't be cleaned out by
ac-clean, but is with the tarball (fixed on HEAD).
Thanks,
-GArrett