Re: Compile Error with slrn 0.9.8.lpl2?

* Thomas Wiegner is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> * 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
> 
> > This using GNU Autoconf 2.61. My apologies if I am pointing out an
> > error in my setup rather than a problem with this slrn source package
> > :-)
> 
> 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*.
> 
> There are some soft links to /usr/share/automake-1.10/ which of
> course only work if you've got automake 1.10 installed on your
> machine. You should either install automake 1.10 or replace the
> links with appropriate /usr/share directory of your installed
> automake version.

I'm trying to install the cvs version, saw this email and thought it might
solve problems I'm having.  However I couldn't find the soft links you refer
to:

$ pwd
/home/troy/downloads/slrn/cvs/slrn
$ grep -r automake *
autogen.sh:(automake --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
autogen.sh:     echo "You must have automake installed to compile slrn";
autogen.sh:automake --foreign --add-missing;
changes.txt:  * Upgrade to more recent versions of gettext, automake and
autoconf.
changes.txt:3. Switched to automake to generate Unix Makefiles (which required
renaming
doc/Makefile.am:## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in -*-
sh -*-
doc/tm/Makefile.am:## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in
-*- sh -*-
doc/tm/Makefile.am:## Based on the Makefile by John E. Davis, adapted to
automake.
Makefile.am:## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in -*- sh
-*-
Makefile.am:## Use aclocal -I autoconf/ && automake --foreign
src/Makefile.am:## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in -*-
sh -*-

I am using automake 1.10 anyway.

$ ./autogen.sh
[snip]
Copying file po/insert-header.sin
Copying file po/quot.sed
Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
configure.in:10: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required
/usr/local/share/aclocal-1.10/init.m4:103: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.in:10: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63
autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.in
configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
src/Makefile.am: installing `autoconf/depcomp'
/usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:   The usual way to define
`am__fastdepCC' is to add `AC_PROG_CC'
/usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:   to `configure.in' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
/usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:   The usual way to define `AMDEP'
is to add one of the compiler tests
/usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:     AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX,
AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC,
/usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:     AM_PROG_AS, AM_PROG_GCJ,
AM_PROG_UPC
/usr/local/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:   to `configure.in' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
src/Makefile.am: C source seen but `CC' is undefined
src/Makefile.am:   The usual way to define `CC' is to add `AC_PROG_CC'
src/Makefile.am:   to `configure.in' and run `autoconf' again.
configure.in:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.in:10: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
configure.in:54: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
configure.in:55: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
configure.in:411: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in autoconf ./autoconf

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