[CLN-list] automake-1.14 dependency

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Luc,

Luc de Jonckheere wrote:
> When I built CLN, it failed making it.
> "autoconf/missing" requires automake-1.14.
> 
> This dependency isn't listed in the install/build documentation (
> https://www.ginac.de/CLN/cln.html#Installing-the-library).
> Building was successful after installing this dependency.

The documentation describes how to build the package, starting from a
source tarball.

For how to build a git checkout, you typically need to look at the files
README, INSTALL, HACKING, README-hacking, or similar, in the top-level
directory. In the case of CLN, it's the INSTALL file. When you start
building from a git checkout, we assume you know what it takes to
generate a configure file (i.e. make sure you have m4, autoconf, automake,
libtool installed).

You didn't say which of the two things you are doing. If you got that
error message when building a tarball, then the tarball is broken; please
tell us which tarball it is, so that we can replace it.

Bruno