Exactly... it fails on Lion as well. This is exactly the kind of stuff I'm
worried about. We have users using ridiculously old OSes in secure
environments where they can't just easily upgrade something...
Here are the errors on Lion:
[gastdr][~/projects/libmesh.automake]> ./bootstrap
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: glibtoolize --copy
glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `build-aux'.
glibtoolize: copying file `build-aux/ltmain.sh'
glibtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
glibtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
configure.ac:53: option `color-tests' not recognized
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
[gastdr][~/projects/libmesh.automake]> automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.10
Written by Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com>
and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <a...@gnu.org>.
Copyright 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM, John Peterson <jwpeter...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
> <benjamin.kir...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> > This coming along quite nicely I think. My last step is to clean out the
> > Make.common definitions and then test including it in client projects. I
> > started on that over the weekend and don't see any issues with
> maintaining
> > that functionality.
> >
> > The biggest changes from the developer's perspective will be
> >
> > (1) files must manually be added to ./Makefile.am and
> ./include/Makefile.am
> > (2) METHOD is now a configure-time variable. Multiple build methods are
> > still supported and are properly installed into different paths, but
> must be
> > built from different directories. For example, I handle it like this:
> >
> > $ ./bootstrap
> > $ mkdir $METHOD
> > $ cd $METHOD
> > $ ../configure ...
> >
> > As part of this process I have also cleaned up almost all of our M4
> sources
> > for consistency and brevity. I recognize that automake is a big
> > stepfunction in our build process, but I think this will make long-term
> > maintenance a lot easier.
> >
> > If anyone is feeling adventurous give ^/branches/libmesh.automake a
> whirl:
> >
> > $ svn co
> >
> https://libmesh.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/libmesh/branches/libmesh.automake
> > $ cd libmesh.automake
> > $ ./bootstrap
> > $ ./configure --with-method=devel --prefix=/tmp/foo
> > $ make -j 18
> > $ make -j 18 check
> > $ make install
> > $ make installcheck
> > $ make -j 18 distcheck
>
> I suspect this could be because I have an old autotools:
>
> $ autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
> Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> But I get an error when calling bootstrap
>
> inl421321(592)$ ./bootstrap
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: running: glibtoolize --copy
> glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `build-aux'.
> glibtoolize: copying file `build-aux/ltmain.sh'
> glibtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
> glibtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
> glibtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
> glibtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
> glibtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
> glibtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
> configure.ac:53: option `color-tests' not recognized
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
>
>
>
> --
> John
>
>
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