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 > >
