[CLN-list] automake-1.14 dependency

[Luc de Jonckheere]

Hi Bruno and Richy,


Sorry for the late respons.
I didn't expect both developers to respond so quickly!

I used the cln-1.3.4.tar.bz2.
I have the all the required build tools installed and updated (to the
latest version in the Arch repo).
The commands used (from /path/to/project/lib/cln-1.3.4):
$ /path/to/src/cln-1.3.4/configure --prefix=/path/to/project/lib/cln-1.3.4
--with-gmp=/path/to/project/lib/gmp-6.1.2 --enable-static --disable-shared
$ make
 cd /path/to/source/cln-1.3.4 && /bin/sh
/path/to/src/cln-1.3.4/autoconf/missing
automake-1.14 --foreign
/path/to/source/cln-1.3.4/autoconf/missing: line 81: automake-1.14: command
not found
WARNING: 'automake-1.14' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified 'Makefile.am' or
         'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
         The 'automake' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
         It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
         <http://www.perl.org/>
make: *** [Makefile:488: /path/to/source/cln-1.3.4/Makefile.in] Error 1

While trying to reproduce the error, I also got the same error but with
aclocal-1.14 instead of automake-1.14.
I have 1.16 installed for both of these tools.

If there is anything else I should check which might help you, just ask.
I'm sorry if this problem is related to my system specific, however, I did
find some occurances of "1.14" in the configure script and the aclocal.m4.
When I install automake-1.14, I don't have any problems, so the rest of the
build process works fine.


With kind regards,

Luc






On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 02:04, Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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