Re: [Openquicktime-devel] Moving files in CVS

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> Doing ./configure;make from the code in CVS works fine
>
> but after running automake;autoconf
> the 'make' stage breaks:
> Makefile:386: *** missing separator. Stop.
>
> Not quite sure what is wrong but the line it complains about is:
> @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@$(DEPDIR)/atom.Plo@am__quote@
>
>
> During automake it warned:
> automake: configure.in: required file './depcomp' not found
> Is this possibly a file you missed from checking into CVS ?

What is your version of Automake ?
I built my Makefile.am for automake 1.4 and had trouble getting them work
with newer version (yes, autmake is not backward compatible !)
Newer automake needs some other files (try "automake -a" to add these
files if they do not exist), and build invalid Makefiles !
(something about dependency tracking in recent automakes, maybee
"automake -i" solves the problem ?)

This is not a problem for users (they do not need to launch
autoconf/automake) but it is one for developers: we have to choose once
and for all the autoconf/automake/libtool versions we use (I use
2.13 / 1.4 / 1.3.5, and it works) !

O, and do not forget to run aclocal from time to time (before autoconf)

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Antoine