On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 04:26:31PM -0500, Adam Spiers wrote:
> On 11 November 2016 at 07:40, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 09:58:02PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> GNU Stow 2.2.2 is now available for download from
> >>
> >> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow/
> >>
> >> and also from the mirrors[1] as soon as they catch up.
>
> [snipped]
>
> > That is great tool, especially for source based operating systems. I
> > am using it in combination with the slashpackage file system hierarchy:
> > http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html - just for compatibility purposes.
>
> Thanks, great to hear it's useful to you :-) I really should
> release a new version soon, since there have been several
> improvements which are currently only available via git.
I tried git clone, installation instructions are not clear. I did
autoconf, automake --add-missing, did not work smoothly. I wish to
know what are improvements, I wanted to make diff on the file, but
went into errors.
./configure --prefix=/package/tools/stow/
configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in automake
"."/automake
automake
configure.ac:9: error: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.15,
configure.ac:9: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
configure.ac:9: comes from Automake 1.13.4. You should recreate
configure.ac:9: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again.
configure.ac:9: error: required file 'automake/install-sh' not found
configure.ac:9: 'automake --add-missing' can install 'install-sh'
configure.ac:9: error: required file 'automake/missing' not found
configure.ac:9: 'automake --add-missing' can install 'missing'
Makefile.am:4: error: required file 'automake/mdate-sh' not found
Makefile.am:4: 'automake --add-missing' can install 'mdate-sh'
parallel-tests: error: required file 'automake/test-driver' not found
parallel-tests: 'automake --add-missing' can install 'test-driver'
automake --add-missing
configure.ac:9: error: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.15,
configure.ac:9: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
configure.ac:9: comes from Automake 1.13.4. You should recreate
configure.ac:9: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again.
configure.ac:9: installing 'automake/install-sh'
configure.ac:9: installing 'automake/missing'
Makefile.am:4: installing 'automake/mdate-sh'
parallel-tests: installing 'automake/test-driver'
ls automake/
install-sh mdate-sh missing test-driver
./configure --prefix=/package/tools/stow/
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking Test::More... yes
checking Test::Output... yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
# Perl modules will be installed to ${prefix}/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1
# which will expand to
#
# /package/tools/stow/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1
#
# unless you override the value of prefix at make-time.
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'
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