2012/10/24 Wilhelm <[email protected]>:
> Am 24.10.2012 09:08, schrieb Lex Trotman:
>
>> On 24 October 2012 17:19, Stefan Sauer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 24.10.2012 08:11 schrieb "Lex Trotman" <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Stuart,
>>>>
>>>> Was just installing asciidoc on a new machine from hg.  Configure fails
>>>> with a message:
>>>>
>>>> configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "."
>>>> "./.." "./../.."
>>>
>>> You need  to run autogen.sh or autoreconf -i to bootstrap from VCS
>>> checkout.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Stephan,
>>
>> There is no autogen.sh in the asciidoc package and after autoreconf -i
>> ./configure still does not find an install-sh.  The documents I
>> pointed to in the link below state:
>
>
> --add-missing to automake may help?
>

Thats what the -i in autoreconf imho does.
Stefan

>
>>
>> " If you use AC_PROG_INSTALL, you must include either install-sh or
>> install.sh in your distribution; otherwise configure produces an error
>> message saying it can't find them—even if the system you're on has a
>> good install program."
>>
>> Forcing requirements on the projects is what prompted the [expletive
>> deleted] on my original post.  Asciidoc is a Python program that
>> really doesn't need much of autotools, but installing by the normal
>> ./configure && make &&sudo make install recipe makes it more
>> comfortable for users.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This appears to be [expletive deleted] by the autotools [expletive
>>>> deleted] developers that now requires that script to be present even if it
>>>> isn't used.
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Alternative-Programs
>>>> AC_PROG_INSTALL.
>>>>
>>>> Just touching install-sh was enough for it to work (it actually uses the
>>>> system install program, not the shell script) but as I read the link above
>>>> we are now required to include the install-sh distributed with autoconf in
>>>> the applications directory.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Lex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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