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Re: automake configure script hangs on OSF1...
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Ed Hartnett |
Subject: |
Re: automake configure script hangs on OSF1... |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Oct 2005 06:21:34 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Ed,
>
> * Ed Hartnett wrote on Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:57:26AM CEST:
>>
>> I am trying to install automake and an OSF1 system. I just installed
>> autoconf, but the automake configure hangs looking for it...
> *snip*
>> checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
>> checking whether autoconf works...
>>
>> And there it sits, until I kill it.
>
> Try to debug it: Edit `configure', search for the string
> whether autoconf works
> and add
> set -x
checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
+ echo configure:2262: checking whether autoconf works
+ 1>& 5
+ echo checking whether autoconf works... \c
+ 1>& 6
checking whether autoconf works... + test = set
+ mkdir conftest
+ echo AC_INIT
+ 1> conftest/conftest.ac
+ echo configure:2269: cd conftest && eval autoconf -o /dev/null
conftest.ac
+ 1>& 5
+ 1>& 5 2>& 5
> before it (and maybe `set +x' some way down) to find out which command
> hangs. I'd suspect the
> eval $am_AUTOCONF -o /dev/null conftest.ac
Yep, that's where it hangs.
>
> but wouldn't have any idea why it should hang. If this is correct, you
> could try to execute this line manually: create conftest.ac consisting
> of a line with `AC_INIT', execute autoconf as above with `/bin/sh -x' to
> see where it hangs. Post whatever you find.
Sorry, not quite following you here...
>
> Maybe autom4te finds a non-GNU m4? Which autoconf version, by the
> way?
I did install a recent gnu m4, so it's not that. (Good idea though).
Here's the autoconf version:
% autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
Thanks,
Ed
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Ed Hartnett -- address@hidden