This is how automake works. Sorry. Automake tries to rebuild when certain files get checked in separately without the corresponding build files. It's hard to keep track of this always when making multple edits.
Try the new beta Abe Singer wrote: > "make install" fails as root failes when the source directory > tree is nsf exported root-squashed (as it should be). Errors > below. > > Why in the world does the install process have to be able to > write in the source tree? > > This is in source checked out from svn today. > This error did not occure in the cfengine-3.0.1 distro. > > The "automake -1.10" error seems to be a red herring, as automake-1.10 > is installed in /usr/local. > > Example make error: > > # make install > cd . && /bin/sh /users/singer/src/linux/cfengine-3.0.1-svn/trunk/missing > --run automake-1.10 --gnu > autom4te: cannot open autom4te.cache/requests: Permission denied > automake-1.10: autoconf failed with exit status: 1 > WARNING: `automake-1.10' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on > your > system. You might have modified some files without having the > proper tools for further handling them. Check the `README' file, > it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing > this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case > some other package would contain this missing `automake-1.10' > program. > make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-cfengine mailing list > Bug-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Bug-cfengine mailing list Bug-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine
