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#1358 autogen.sh fails
System is Ubuntu Linux 18.04 64 bit on newest SVN revision 38995.
The autogen.sh produced the following error:
configure.ac:367: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated. For more info, see:
configure.ac:367: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL'
Makefile.am: error: required file './AUTHORS' not found
Makefile.am: error: required file './ChangeLog' not found
Should be a simple fix of committing those files to correct those errors.
Thanks.
Those files have been removed on purpose, you shouldnt get this error. What version of autotools/automake/autoconf do you have installed? Did you do a clean checkout?
autotools: 20180224.1
automake: 1.15.1
autoconf: 2.69-11
I did a regular svn update like I usually do when I want to checkout the newest revision.
Thanks.
try "make distclean" and then try again
Make failed with this error:
yeah ok, you didnt update for a while - the easiest way to fix is is doing a clean checkout (the alternative is to do a lot of cleanup manually)
Thanks that did the trick. However, for some reason the configure script doesn't generate a Makefile, which is strange. Checking the output, I don't see any errors that stand out. This is, of course, another issue. I can bring this discussion elsewhere if necessary.
https://pastebin.com/raw/1qZHRV79
--no-create --no-recursion ?
Don't type those last two options. (Only the "./config.status --recheck" script uses them.)
That was it. I'm not sure why I needed those options but it was part of a build script I had set up probably close to a decade ago. They don't appear to be a listed option in configure anymore and for some reason they silently make it fail. Everything is working now. These issues were not a bug, just an issue with old sources and custom build script. Thanks!
They aren't documented because we aren't supposed to use them. We aren't supposed to know even that they exist! As I told you before, only a second script file ever uses those two options.
cheers :)