Dave, Have our INSTALL docs been updated to indicate required Autotools versions?
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]>wrote: > On 12 September 2012 13:15, Daniel Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using the git repo (git://github.com/apache/couchdb.git) for this > > install. > > I have selected tag 1.2.0. I do: > > > > ./bootstrap > > > > And then: > > > > $ ./configure > > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p > > checking for gawk... no > > checking for mawk... mawk > > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes > > checking for gcc... gcc > > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > > checking for suffix of executables... > > checking for suffix of object files... o > > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed > > checking for style of include used by make... GNU > > checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 > > ./configure: line 3698: syntax error near unexpected token `win32-dll' > > ./configure: line 3698: `LT_INIT(win32-dll)' > > > > What does this error mean? Has somebody been able to install CouchDB > 1.2.0 > > in Ubuntu 8.04 Server? > > > > Thanks, > > Daniel > > Hi Daniel, > > Most likely that your version of autotools is older than when LT_INIT > was supported. > > You can safely remove that LT_INIT line & retry, or alternatively the > release .tgz may work better for you than the git tag checkout. > > FWIW I think we released 1.2.0 using autoconf 2.69 or thereabouts, and > likely a close relative of libtool as well. > > autoconf -V yields 2.69 on my mac. > > Given ubuntu 8.04 LTS ended last year, I don't see a need for fixing > this unless we could ensure LT_INIT(…) ran only for windows > configure/builds. > > A+ > Dave > -- NS
