Hi Jay, ok, another try =). I have attached a modified configure.in file to multisync for you. But now it is called configure.ac. Try to use this instead of your configure.in. And if you have new errors after the use of this configure-file send the error output again. Donīt worry about the warnings 'unquoted ...'. They are not the case why you cant build multisync. But now donīt use the ./autogen.sh script. Instead use the following commands in the following order.
aclocal autoconf autoheader automake -a ./configure make PS: "Perfection is our goal; excellence will be tolerated." -- great slogan =) Regards, Stefan Huber! >Thanks for the tips; I tried some to change some of the "underquoted" >issues to include the "[]", but I'm not sure that got me much further.> >Duh. I guess it would help to include stderr... Here's the full output, >with the *unmodified* multisync sources (no changes based on the tips >below). > >Thanks! > >jay > >On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 02:02, Stefan Huber wrote: > Hello, > > i think you use very new versions of the autotools. > The errors I think come from a change in some syntax to the autotools. > > The first error I got also some time ago. I changed the propriate lines in > the code of the m4 macros. The change must be like this example: > > AC_SUBST(am__leading_dot) to AC_SUBST([am__leading_dot]) > > So there are the "[]" missing. > > Of course, that could be pretty much, if you get the error from a lot of m4 > macros, but I donīt know what to do instead. > > Now to the second error. The syntax of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE used in the > configure.in file (now for example is called configure.ac, but both can be > used) is also deprecated. > > Here is a description from the site http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ > > Description: > > The second, deprecated, form of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE has two required arguments: > the package and the version number. This form is obsolete because the > package and version can be obtained from Autoconf's AC_INIT macro (which > itself has an old and a new form). > > If your configure.in has: > > AC_INIT(src/foo.c) > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mumble, 1.5) > > > you can modernize it as follows: > > AC_INIT(mumble, 1.5) > AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/foo.c) > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE > > > Note that if you're upgrading your configure.in from an earlier version of > Automake, it is not always correct to simply move the package and version > arguments from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE directly to AC_INIT, as in the example > above. The first argument to AC_INIT should be the name of your package > (e.g. GNU Automake), not the tarball name (e.g. automake) that you used to > pass to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. Autoconf tries to derive a tarball name from the > package name, which should work for most but not all package names. (If it > doesn't work for yours, you can use the four-argument form of AC_INIT -- > supported in Autoconf versions greater than 2.52g -- to provide the tarball > name explicitly). > > By default this macro AC_DEFINE's PACKAGE and VERSION. This can be avoided > by passing the no-define option, as in: > > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gnits 1.5 no-define dist-bzip2]) > > > > Hopefully this will help! > > Regards, > > Stefan Huber! > > > > I'm running 64-bit SuSE 9.1, and am trying to build the Multisync > > branch_08X from CVS. > > > > When I run ./autogen, I get a lot of errors of the form: > > > > /opt/gnome/share/aclocal/libIDL.m4:6: warning: underquoted definition of > > AM_PATH_LIBIDL > > run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' > > or see > > http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending%20aclocal > > > > > > > > Then, the last error I get is: > > > > Running autoconf ... > > Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/opt/multisync ... > > ./configure: line 1250: syntax error near unexpected token `multisync,' > > ./configure: line 1250: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(multisync, 0.82)' > > > > > > I've attached the complete output. I'm hoping someone can point me in > > the right direction. > > > > thanks! > > > > > > jay > > > > ------------------- > > "Perfection is our goal; > > excellence will be tolerated." > > -- Source unknown > > -- jay -- "Sie haben neue Mails!" - Die GMX Toolbar informiert Sie beim Surfen! Jetzt aktivieren unter http://www.gmx.net/info
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