Re: basic help for bare-boned newbie

[Peter Jay Salzman]

hi akim,

first, thank you for responding!

i finally did find out what was wrong: autoconf 2.5x and 2.13 debian
packages were both installed on my system.  the *packages* don't
conflict but the programs do.  inadvertantly, some of what i did used
the 2.5 tools and some used the 2.13 tools.

i made sure to use only the 2.5x tools, and lo and behold it worked.  a
configure script was generated and it almost ran to completion.

   checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
   checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
   configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../..

/usr/bin/install is on my system, and is also in my PATH.  but according
to the autoconf info page:

- Macro: AC_PROG_INSTALL

     Set output variable `INSTALL' to the path of a BSD compatible
     `install' program, if one is found in the current `PATH'.
     Otherwise, set `INSTALL' to `DIR/install-sh -c', checking the
     directories specified to `AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR'

the info page also says that AC_PROG_INSTALL filters out "install"
implementations that are known to be buggy, but i doubt GNU install is
buggy.

i was able to get configure to complete successfully by commenting out
AC_PROG_INSTALL in configure.in, but that's a bandaid fix.   how can i
get configure to recognize /usr/bin/install?

pete




begin Akim Demaille <address@hidden> 
> 
> | hi all,
> | i'm trying to learn autoconf by converting one of my programs to use
> | autoconf.  i'm having difficulty; here's what i tried:
> | 
> |    % cp Makefile Makefile.orig
> |    % mv Makefile Makefile.in
> |    % autoscan
> |    % mv configure.scan configure.in   
> |    % autoheader
> |    % autoconf
> |    autoconf: Undefined macros:
> |    configure.in:22:AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE
> |    configure.in:23:AC_FUNC_MALLOC
> |    configure.in:27:AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> |    configure.in:3:AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([xpose.c])
> |    address@hidden ./configure
> |    configure: error: can not find sources in . or ..
> | 
> | the tutorial i'm using claimed that this should've worked.  clearly
> | autoconf _should_ know macro functions like AC_FUNC_MALLOC, so i must be
> | missing a very basic and obvious step.
> 
> How bizarre...  How about giving the version number?  Of autoscan and
> autoconf.
> 
> | can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong?
> | 
> | thanks!
> | pete

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