Chris is probably right, verify that automake package is installed as well.
Seth Herr Tel: +1.212.289.9535 Mobile: +1.917.734.0163 [email protected] On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Chris Wilson <[email protected]<chris%[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi Niles, > > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Niles Collins wrote: > > > I am getting the error message: > > > > /bin/bash ./config.status --recheck > > running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure --prefix=/usr > > --datadir=/usr/share --no-create --no-recursion > > ./configure: line 1637: syntax error near unexpected token `dist-bzip2' > > ./configure: line 1637: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip)' > > make: *** [config.status] Error 2 > > Unfortunately I think the error happened earlier, during the first time > that you ran configure. I would hazard a wild guess that you don't have > automake installed, but if installing that (and deleting the extracted > sources and extracting them again) doesn't fix it, then you could report > the error to the developers. > > Cheers, Chris. > -- > Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887 > The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES > > Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales > with company number 04980791. > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
_______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
