I know next to nothing about GNU autoconf, but apparently the Gentoo ebuild re-runs the autoconf tools (eautoreconf, aclocal, autoconf and automake) in each directory of the courier source tree. aclocal returns an error in the pcp dir, which aborts the the ebuild. I assume Gentoo needs to do this since the build is done in a temporary directory and the the results relocated in the process of generating the working run-time files.
These tools have already been run on the source tree, apparently in a more forgiving environment, prior to generating the distributed bz tarball, so someone simply running ./configure, make, make install on the source won't encounter the error. Removing "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4" from the end of pcp/Makefile.am solves the problem for Gentoo - and I presume is a no-nevermind for anyone building Courier from the provided configure and Makefile.in scripts. Sam, do you see any problem with making this so? On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 16:31 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 13:59 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > The last line in pcp/Makefile.am is: > > > > > > ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 > > > > > > > Oh, hell... you're right. Here I was, looking at > > http://courier.cvs.sourceforge.net/courier/courier/pcp/ when I should > > have been looking at > > http://courier.cvs.sourceforge.net/courier/libs/pcp/ > > Well it's worth noting that this flag setting in the CVS libs tree > _does_ refer to an existing m4 directory which contains a fair number of > m4 files. The fact that it also occurs in the stock courier source tree > appears to be an error since there's no such directory there. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world, | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
