You can start by running the ./autogen script after unpacking the archive.
That should configure Autotools and then proceed with using ./configure.

Hope that helps.

~ Sid


On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote:

> I too am attempting to build 3.5.4. but on an arm64, which I've setup
> with 6 4T SSD's
>
> on a usb3.1 interface. Not configured but intend to build a 20T LVM out
> of 5 of them and the 6th as a holding disk.
>
> At first, I have 7 other machines on this local network, possibly 9 if I
> live long enough, cherry picking the work directory's so the individual
> os can be updated and the work then recovered.
>
> unpacking the archive, I see no makefiles or configure so I assume I
> start with ./automake since I do have an automake.am. But it quickly
> spits out a missing:
>
> config/amanda/libs.m4:160: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0' not found
> in library
>
> followed by around 10 screens full of tracing info, ending in:
>
> configure.ac:27: the top level
> configure.ac:19: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
>        If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow.
>        See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:25: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl
> configure:48225: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0
> configure:48226: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
> autoconf failed
>
> I have not built amanda in several years and my aging memory at 90 yo
> does not remember what it took to build it on amd64 all those years ago.
> And to further confuse the issue, this is aarch64, a bananapi m5, much
> like an rpi4b but somewhat faster and all usb sockets are usb-3.1, so
> the rw bandwidth to these 4T SSD's is around 500 megs/second. 4x faster
> than the pair of spinning rust drives that died at 2 weeks spin time
> shortly after I upgraded to bookworm which wiped out my amanda setup
> back then.
>
> Any help pulling this off will be gratefully appreciated.  Thanks to all.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>   soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
>   - Louis D. Brandeis
>
>

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