Re: DDD

On 03/26/2015 03:36 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
> On 03/13/15 09:07, Fred Krogh wrote:
>> I thought I might be able to help a little by giving this a try.  But 
>> I may not have adequate
>> knowledge to be useful.  After
>>
>> svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/ddd/branches/gddd
>>
>> I have a nice gddd directory.  I'm a little fuzzy on what the next 
>> step should be.  I tried
>>
>> autoconf
>>
>> and got this
>>
>> configure.ac:59: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>>        If this token and others are legitimate, please use 
>> m4_pattern_allow.
>>        See the Autoconf documentation.
>> configure.ac:154: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
>> configure.ac:191: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LEX
>> configure.ac:265: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>> configure.ac:488: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
>>
>> Then tried automake and got
>>
>> configure.ac: error: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
>> configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes 
>> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
>> configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
>> configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using 
>> aclocal)
>> configure.ac:53: error: required file './config.guess' not found
>> + many more complaints
>>
>>
>> If you want to do some hand holding to get me further along, I will 
>> do some checking of gddd,  It's
>> quite understandable if you feel your time is better spent 
>> elsewhere.  I am on an Gentoo system,
>> with autoconf-2.69.
>
> Autotools are version sensitive.  You are probably using
> a version of autoconf or automake which is different from
> that used previously.
>
>
Evidently my autoconf or automake has been updated.  Now using autoconf 
2.69 and automake 1.15.  Now autoconf, automake, and .configure seem to 
work.  But "make" gets some errors.  Perhaps these are easy to fix??
All looked o.k. until just below the first line below.

rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
ddd.texi:1: misplaced {
ddd.texi:1: misplaced }
ddd.texi:157: @sp arg must be numeric, not `-7'
Makefile:2448: recipe for target 'ddd.info' failed
make[2]: *** [ddd.info] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/m/gddd/ddd'
Makefile:2037: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/m/gddd/ddd'
Makefile:612: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I'm not all that familiar with .texi files, or perhaps here too, there 
is some problem with the version of tex I'm using.  If I run makeinfo on 
this file I get the same errors.  My current version of makeinfo is 5.2.

I tried changing the {} on line 1 to (), and the -7 to 0, but then the 
same errors popped up in ddd-themes.texi.  Since I have no idea what I'm 
doing, I'm giving up for now.