I was building from Ben's daily tarball which is, as far as I know,
identical to a released tarball.

BTW it happens in the second build after a distclean. So maybe the problem
has soemthing to do with disctclean.

So it is a bug?

Have fun

2017-03-09 6:58 GMT+01:00 John Darrington <[email protected]>:

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:38:36PM +0100, Harry Thijssen wrote:
>
>      When I try to build pspp for MSWindows I get:
>
>      /usr/bin/sed -e '/^"POT-Creation-Date: /d' po/zh_CN.po,tmp >
>      po/zh_CN.po,tmp2
>      rm -f po/zh_CN.po,tmp
>      mv po/zh_CN.po,tmp2 po/zh_CN.po
>      POFILES="po/ca.po po/de.po po/el.po po/es.po po/fr.po po/gl.po
> po/hu.po
>      po/ja.po po/lt.po po/nl.po po/pl.po po/pt_BR.po po/ru.po po/sl.po
> po/tr.po
>      po/uk.po po/zh_CN.po" top_builddir="." /bin/sh
>      src/ui/gui/gen-dot-desktop.sh > src/ui/gui/pspp.desktop
>      /bin/sh ./build-aux/missing --run autom4te --language=autotest -I '.'
> tests/
>      testsuite.at | /usr/bin/sed 's/@<00A0>@/ /g' > tests/testsuite.tmp
>      ./build-aux/missing: line 81: autom4te: command not found
>      WARNING: 'autom4te' is missing on your system.
>               You might have modified some maintainer files that require
>               the 'autom4te' program to be rebuilt.
>               The 'autom4te' program is part of the GNU Autoconf package:
>               <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
>               It also requires GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
>               <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
>               <http://www.perl.org/>
>      test -s tests/testsuite.tmp
>      Makefile:12456: recipe for target 'tests/testsuite' failed
>      make[2]: *** [tests/testsuite] Error 1
>
>
>      Is this an error?
>
> It depends:
>
> If you are building from a released tarball, then the answer is "yes".
>
> However, if you are building from (say) a git snapshot, then "no"; it means
> that you haven't got autoconf installed (or your system can't find it).
> See the file README.Git for details of what exactly you need to build
> from a Git checkout.
>
> HTH,
>
> J'
>
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