Re: failure building HEAD

2003-12-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
reopen 221483 stop Robert == Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 18:09, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Robert == Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Robert configure:1847: cd conftest eval autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac Robert

Re: failure building HEAD

2003-12-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 21:44, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: I think this is the problem. Ben, you cannot write `$output.tmp' because when $output is /dev/null a user cannot create /dev/null.tmp. This change breaks the configuration of all versions of Automake since 1.6 :( Yah, so, the right

Re: failure building HEAD

2003-12-01 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Robert == Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Robert configure:1847: cd conftest eval autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac Robert autom4te: cannot open /dev/null.tmp: Permission denied Robert Is this a 'need to use 2.59' thing? (If so, the error is misleading). It works fine with

Re: failure building HEAD

2003-12-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 18:09, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Robert == Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Robert configure:1847: cd conftest eval autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac Robert autom4te: cannot open /dev/null.tmp: Permission denied Robert Is this a 'need to use

failure building HEAD

2003-11-30 Thread Robert Collins
checking whether autoconf is installed... yes checking whether autoconf works... no configure: error: The installed version of autoconf does not work. Please check config.log for error messages before this one. I get the above configuring CVS automake. from config.log: configure:1819: eval