On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Ray Cole wrote:
> I'd installed autoconf from source. I do have a /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.8
> directory. I tried creating a symbolic link from /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.8
> to /usr/share/aclocal but I get the exact same results :-(
But is anything _in_ that directory? I think the underlying problem
isn't the directory name (I think automake/aclocal/autoconf know to
look for files in versioned directory) but rather nothing is in it.
Thus when you run automake (./autogen.sh for mjpegtools is a 1 line
shell script that simply performs "autoreconf -f -i" and that runs
all the aclocal, libtool, automake, autoconf commands in the right
order) the errors pop out because none of the .m4 files can be found.
> I'll try cleaning up autoconf and automake completely, re-do the install
> of them, and see what happens.
And populate the directory with .m4 files by adding in the development
packages ;)
If the system is of moderately recent vintage then the system provided
autoconf/libtool/automake versions will be adequate (autoconf 2.5x
is fine, the minimum version of automake needed for mjpegtools was
bumped to 1.7 a little while ago).
Remember - when you remove and reinstall automake you'll need to
populate the .../aclocal* directory with all the .m4 files that belong
to the programs/packages you'll be using! So if you do something
like "rm -r /usr/share/aclocal*" and then reinstall automake you need to
get all the m4 files from somewhere - reinstalling the various
packages or something (a clean install making sure that 'matching
devel packages' are added would be one way ;)
The m4 files in /usr/share/aclocal usually come from -devel packages
selected during system installation (that's where the listing I
gave as an example came from). m4 files from programs I install
myself go into /usr/local/share/aclocal (because I default the
$prefix to /usr/local).
Good Luck (I think you'll need it ;)).
Cheers,
Steven Schultz
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