Re: automake 1.9.6 build failure

[Mike Owens]

Thanks for your reply. I bet you are correct, but there is still a
problem: there is no bootstrap file in the project (tarball or svn).
Where can I get a copy of this file? In the interim. I will search
through older versions to see of there is a copy there to be had.

-- Mike

On 2/1/07, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Mike,
>
> * Mike Owens wrote on Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:20:29PM CET:
> > I am maintaining my copy of automake in a subversion vendor branch. I
> > have encountered a problem that is very difficult for me to diagnose.
> > The copy in subversion will not build on Solaris. The tarball will.
>
> That's probably because the subversion copy has messed-up timestamps.
> Try running
>   ./bootstrap
>
> in it once.  Then, configure and make.  Then keep the build tree.
> Then the next svn update may trigger another automake invocation,
> but it should succeed now.  Hmm.  Maybe you also need to do a
> 'make install' for 1.9.6 and keep the installed tree around, I
> remember fixing a related bug before 1.10.
>
> > This problem does not occur on Linux -- the subversion checkout builds fine.
>
> Probably the difference is that when you do a new checkout, the time
> stamps are ok, while on an updated svn tree, they won't be.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf