I think that I've now fixed this problem. Thanks for the hint. "distclean" was deleting the testsuite, which it should not have done.
On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:30:51AM +0100, Harry Thijssen wrote: > 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' > > > > > > -- > > Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. > > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 > > See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pspp-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
