# This script file describes succintly what i wish to do with my program.
# When i enter the following list of commands manually into a terminal this works fine and i can configure, make, install and uninstall the software at will.

# download and extract files
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf hello-2.1.1.tar.gz

# compile downloaded software
cd hello-2.1.1
./configure
make
sudo make install
make clean

# move folder to a different location
cd ..
cp -r ./hello-2.1.1 ~

# change to the copy of the folder in this new location and 
# uninstall the software from the system, using the copy of the original folder in the new location.
cd ~/hello-2.1.1
sudo make uninstall


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# In my script software i am essentially performing the same procedure as above but the functionality is split between several script wrappert files.
# The following commands are all called via a test script, called usig sudo so the whole script runs with superuser priviliges

# download and extract files
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz		= contained within ./download.sh

tar -xzf hello-2.1.1.tar.gz					= contained within ./untar.sh

cd hello-2.1.1							= contained within compile.sh
./configure							= contained within compile.sh
make								= contained within compile.sh

make install						= contained within install.sh
make clean							= contained within install.sh

cd ..								= contained within install.sh

cp -r ./hello-2.1.1 /usr/share/merlin				= contained within install.sh
# Note in my script software the above line is slightly modified compared with the manual procedure. 
# Instead of making a copy of the folder in ~ a copy is made in a system folder /usr/share/merlin.
# This can be done by BASH as all these commands are contained in a script that is run as root.

rm -r ./hello-2.1.1
# note that this line is not in the original procedure, we delete the original copy of the folder     = contained within install.sh
# since we have a safe copy in a new location.

cd /usr/share/merlin/hello-2.1.1			= contained within uninstall.sh
make uninstall						= contained within uninstall.sh

# Despite the fact that these two processes are essentially equivalent as far as i can see the scripted version of the procedure does not work.
# When my test script executes uninstall.sh, as soon as the 'make uninstall' line is reached the whole thing grinds to a halt
# The following error is generated:

/home/ste/merlin/hello-2.1.1/missing: line 46: aclocal-1.6: command not found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.6' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.  You might want
         to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
         any GNU archive site.
/bin/sh: /home/ste/merlin/hello-2.1.1/missing: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 127

# NB: Im sure automake and perl are on my system: normally i can compile and install code without problems using autotools.

# Note that i tried to solve the bug by rewriting my script so that all textual occurences of "/home/ste/merlin" are replaced
# with "/usr/share/merlin" in all the makefiles and scripts etc within /usr/share/merlin/hello-2.1.1 however this makes no difference; i still get this error.

# As far as i can tell i have not modified the files mentioned in the error message, so i have no idea why im getting this error! Completely stumped! :)

# if you could help me out i can be contacted at address@hidden or via the list.
# Cheers! :)