David, Re SunOS, it is possible that your ARCH will need to be set to 'solaris' for dx to produce a working build. At least that's what I had to do in the past. Hopefully this is one of the many things our contributors have fixed. Good luck, Pete
David Starks-Browning wrote: > Sorry, I figured it out. > > I had the environment variable > > export ARCH=`uname` > > defined when I ran autoheader. This must have clobbered the > > AC_SUBST(ARCH) > > entry in configure.in. > > Live and learn! Sorry for wasting everyone's time. > > Humbly, > David > > On Wednesday 11 Apr 01, David Starks-Browning writes: > > I've re-installed GNU m4-1.4, automake-1.4, and autoconf-2.13. I > > still get the exact same error when I run ./CVSMake: > > > > aclocal && \ > > autoheader && \ > > automake -a -i && \ > > autoconf > > > > Are you sure it's a problem with my installation? If it is, can > > anyone help me fix it? I don't know what else to do besides (re-)install > > these tools. > > > > I'm sorry to be so helpless here. > > > > Thanks, > > David > > > > On Tuesday 10 Apr 01, David Thompson writes: > > > This is a problem with your autoconf tools setup. But as for the > > > AC_TRY_RUN warnings, you can ignore them. > > > > > > David > > > > > > >Greetings, > > > > > > > >I'm attempting to build dx from CVS, checked out today. When I run > > > >./CVSMake, I get the following error from autoheader: > > > > > > > >configure.in:873: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow > > > >cross compiling > > > >configure.in:899: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow > > > >cross compiling > > > >/sw/arch/bin/autoheader: Symbol `SunOS' is not covered by > > > >/sw/common/share/autoconf/acconfig.h ./acconfig.h > > > > > > > >(BTW, should I ignore the warnings?) > > > > > > > >This is GNU autoconf-2.13 and GNU m4-1.4. Whatever platform I try > > > >(SunOS, OSF1, IRIX64, Linux), I get similar errors, with the > > > >corresponding uname result substituted in the error message.
