Re: Has the build procedure changed? -- LINUX5250

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Scott Klement wrote:

It's been awhile since I've tried to build TN5250 from CVS.  Has the
process changed?  When I try to run ./autogen.sh, it fails spectacularly
with the following errors:

Yes, the build has changed quite a bit. However, autoreconf should do thetrick (i.e. no changed to what you type in to build it).


configure.ac:7: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or
m4_bpatsubst


Not sure what this is..

aclocal.m4:546: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.ac:7: the top level
configure.ac:234: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp


Or this.

[snip]

configure.ac:234: the top level
automake: configure.ac: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' must be used
libtoolize: `configure.in' does not exist
Try `libtoolize --help' for more information.
configure.ac: 18: installing `./ltmain.sh'; cannot run `libtoolize': No
such file or directory

This looks to me like it is trying to use the old configure.in instead ofthe new configure.ac. I wonder if you have old copies of things lyingaround?

Looking into CVS, it appears that Carey was the last person to change the
way autogen.sh worked.  He changed it to run "autoreconf".

With this new system, do I need to type some different commands or build
TN5250 with different tools?  How do I fix the above errors?

autoreconf should do everything perfectly (at least it does for me and theother people I've had test it). It could be that your auto* tools arerather old, though the new configure.ac doesn't use any syntax that isparticularly new.


James Rich

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