Re: Compile Error with slrn 0.9.8.lpl2?

Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Organization Department of Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

* Thomas Wiegner wrote on Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 04:16:20PM CEST:
> * Andrew Strong ([email protected]) wrote [Fri, 070713 11:18]:
> 
> >  I am trying to compile the following file:
> 
> > slrn_0.9.8.1pl2~cvs20070125.orig.tar.gz
> 
> > from the Debian ftp site:
> 
> > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/slrn/
> 
> > But I get the following errors in compile.log:
> 
> > configure:1826: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in
> > autoconf "."/autoconf
[...]
> No, it's a bug in the slrn_0.9.8.1pl2~cvs20070125.orig.tar.gz
> package, take a look in the autoconf subdirectory, the problem is
> related to *automake* rather than *autoconf*.

The problem is that whoever created the tarball did not use "make dist"
to create it; that would have converted the symlinked files to copies of
the files.  It would have also prevented the tarball from containing
files like config.log and autom4te.cache contents which need not be
packaged.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf

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