Re: [QStat-devx] Automake issues

[Steven H. <ki...@mu...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ludwig Nussel" <l-...@us...>
>> 
>> >>Automake 1.6 was deemed a bad version 1.4, 1.5, 1.8 and 1.9 are
>> >>the readly supported versions. autogen 1.8 here fails with:
>> >>./autogen.sh 
>> >>+ set -e
>> >>+ aclocal
>> >>aclocal: not found
>> 
>> Its installed but your script fails to find it. See the updated script
>> for info on how to do that.
> 
> It doesn't try to find anything. It just runs aclocal etc. assuming
> it's in $PATH. I don't understand why you install those programs
> with some strange suffix. There should always be a default automake
> which is actually called 'automake' and not some 'automake-foobar'.
> What distribution is that?

You will find due to the broken arse compatibility between versions
most distribs dont install to none suffixed exe's hence the detect script.
Here I use FreeBSD various versions.

>> >$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/aclocal
>> >automake-1.9.5-3
>> >
>> >SLES8 has automake 1.6, I'm going to try that out tomorrow.
> 
> Works just fine there.

All down to the missing exe's

>> >>I've just commited an update to autogen.sh you might want
>> >>to have a look there ludwig ensure its ok with u.
>> >
>> >wtf? why do you need such a complicated script? What about just
>> >running autoreconf?
>> As that would have exactly the same issues and besides u removed
>> autoreconf for a reason I assumed.
> 
> You said you don't have it so I assumed it was not present in some
> older automake version. However now I guess it's also called
> autoreconf-something on your installation.

Indeed 1.5 didn't seem to include it now running 1.9.

    Steve / K


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