Hello Fink developers. I hope this isn't too irrelevant to this list, but I'm trying to get a program to compile for Darwin/X11 and I don't really know what I'm doing, but I having fun so I thought I'd stick at it. There is a Linux Makefile but it doesn't work (I can provide more details). Anyway, in my blind searching for ideas, I thought I'd learn what automake and autoconfig do, and i thought I might be able to make a configure file for this software automatically and then magically get it to compile and run. :) I know I'm probably naive about this but what the hell, it'll be fun if it works and maybe it can become a fink package ...

The program is for phylogenetic analysis and is called SplitsTree and has already been ported recently to MacOSX running TclTkAqua, but I thought it'd be cool to get it to work on X11.

Anyway, would anyone be able to advise me if I'm crazy and should stop now, or ... if it just might work, and if so, perhaps suggest what's I should do with the my configure.ac file that makes automake give the errors I've pasted below? (p.s. I did run aclocal but it doesn't make any difference...)

sorry if this is too OT or if I'm barking up the wrong tree - but thanks heaps in advance for any help - Fink is awesome and if it wasn't for Fink, I would never have got into trying such cool things as this - might have been a good thing ;) If I should be asking this on a different list, then please let me know - this seemed the best one I could think of...

Cheers, David Orlovich.

[David-Orlovichs-Computer:~/splitstree3.2/src] orlovich% automake
configure.ac:4: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not `AC_CONFIG_HEADER'
automake: configure.ac: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' must be used
automake: no proper implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found,
automake: probably because aclocal.m4 is missing...
automake: You should run aclocal to create this file, then
automake: run automake again.
configure.ac: required file `./install-sh' not found
configure.ac: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
configure.ac: required file `./missing' not found
automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified



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