[CLN-list] Difficulty building rpm of CLN

[galen]

I am working on an updated rpm of your library for PCLinuxOS. I was 
hoping for some assistance, as I am running out of ideas. I appreciated 
any attention you may offer to this problem. Thanks for this library.

First of all, I can build the library successfully using ./configure, 
make, and make install. However, when I try to build it with a spec 
file, it comes up with all kinds of errors. I started with the spec 
PCLinuxOS spec file for 1.1.13, then looked for clues from Mandriva, 
Fedora and the included cln.spec.in.

Here seems to be the environment created for building the rpm:

+ CFLAGS='-O2  -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fomit-frame-pointer 
-march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'
+ export CFLAGS
+ CXXFLAGS='-O2  -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fomit-frame-pointer 
-march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'
+ export CXXFLAGS
+ FFLAGS='-O2  -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fomit-frame-pointer 
-march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'

Here are the errors when I build without any other modifications:

checking whether build environment is sane... 
/usr/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCCAS does not appear 
in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am:   The usual way to define 
`am__fastdepCCAS' is to add `AM_PROG_AS'
/usr/share/automake-1.11/am/depend2.am:   to `configure.ac' and run 
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
src/Makefile.am: Preprocessed Assembler source seen but `CCAS' is undefined
src/Makefile.am:   The usual way to define `CCAS' is to add `AM_PROG_AS'
src/Makefile.am:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
src/Makefile.am: Preprocessed Assembler source seen but `CCASFLAGS' is 
undefined
src/Makefile.am:   The usual way to define `CCASFLAGS' is to add 
`AM_PROG_AS'
src/Makefile.am:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
./configure: line 4759: CL_AS_UNDERSCORE: command not found
./configure: line 4760: CL_AS_NOEXECSTACK: command not found
./configure: line 4762: syntax error near unexpected token `autoconf'
./configure: line 4762: `                      CL_CANONICAL_HOST(autoconf)'
make: *** [config.status] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /home/galen/src/tmp/rpm-tmp.68019 (%build)


RPM build errors:
     Bad exit status from /home/galen/src/tmp/rpm-tmp.68019 (%build)

 From this output, I've tried adding:

echo 'AM_PROG_AS' >> configure.ac
aclocal
autoconf

just before %configure.

This leads to other errors which I'll gladly outline if necessary.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and any feedback would be 
appreciated.

Galen