Hi, need to compile a very old software package which is based on automake 1.4. But I was not able to get this version of automake for my SuSE Linux 10.2. The installed version I'm using is 1.9.
If I execute the script autogen.sh (which is provided by the software and executes aclocal, autoheader, autoconf, automake -a) I get the following error: configure.in:74: configure substitutions are not allowed in _SOURCES variables The problem seems to be related to this lines of code. AC_SUBST(WIDGET) AC_SUBST(DEBUGGING) AC_SUBST(VIDBASE) AC_SUBST(DRIVER) AC_SUBST(VIDWRAP) AC_SUBST(INPUT) AC_SUBST(FORMATS) AC_SUBST(FONT) AC_SUBST(APPMGR) AC_SUBST(OS) AC_SUBST(VIDSUBDIRS) AC_SUBST(CURSES) Well after doing some reserach I found out that AC_SUBST is used to declare a variable in all files of the project. If I comment some of the statements above I can run autogen, configure. But make cancels with many linker errors. Well is there any alternative to AC_SUBST ? thanks -- Regards, --Codefritz
