[CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John J. Boyer
You saw my previous message about a strange error. I've tried many times to get autotools working on CentOS. It's the only distro in which I have had problems. How do i bring this to the attention of those who make the decisions? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
John J. Boyer wrote: You saw my previous message about a strange error. I've tried many times to get autotools working on CentOS. It's the only distro in which I have had problems. How do i bring this to the attention of those who make the decisions? these decisions are made in rhel, not

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:10:37AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: You saw my previous message about a strange error. I've tried many times to get autotools working on CentOS. It's the only distro in which I have had problems. How do i bring this to the attention of those who make the

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, John J. Boyer wrote: You saw my previous message about a strange error. I've tried many times to get autotools working on CentOS. It's the only distro in which I have had problems. How do i bring this to the attention of those who make the decisions? Autotools behave

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John J. Boyer
I used rhel up to a few weeks ago and had no problem with autotools. it is definitely a CentOS issue. Thanks, John On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:14:00AM +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: John J. Boyer wrote: You saw my previous message about a strange error. I've tried many times to get

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John J. Boyer
The same project that works fine in rhel doesn't work in CentOS the configure script produced by autoconf is bad. I suspect that CentOS is not including a needed development file. The project was developed over many years by autotools experts. If you want to try it I'll give you the URLs for

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, John J. Boyer wrote: I used rhel up to a few weeks ago and had no problem with autotools. it is definitely a CentOS issue. And you've done a package compare of the two machines to verify you're not missing something? jh ___

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:32:52AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: I used rhel up to a few weeks ago and had no problem with autotools. it is definitely a CentOS issue. Please do not top-post on the CentOS mailing lists - thanks. None of libtools, autoconf or automake are modified for CentOS,

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
John J. Boyer wrote: The same project that works fine in rhel doesn't work in CentOS the configure script produced by autoconf is bad. I suspect that CentOS is not including a needed development file. The project was developed over many years by autotools experts. If you want to try it I'll

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John J. Boyer
I've installed autoconf and automake from the CentOS repository. When I get liblouisutdml from its repository and run the autogen.sh script and then configure I get the error I explained in my previous message. Autoconf is generating a bad configure script. I've had the same problem on other

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:01:30AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: I've installed autoconf and automake from the CentOS repository. When I get liblouisutdml from its repository and run the autogen.sh script and then configure I get the error I explained in my previous message. Autoconf is

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/8/11, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.com wrote: I've installed autoconf and automake from the CentOS repository. When I get liblouisutdml from its repository and run the autogen.sh script and then configure I get the error I explained in my previous message. You're assuming that

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 7/8/11, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.com wrote: I've installed autoconf and automake from the CentOS repository. When I get liblouisutdml from its repository and run the autogen.sh script and then configure I get the error I explained in my previous

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, John J. Boyer wrote: I've installed autoconf and automake from the CentOS repository. When I get liblouisutdml from its repository and run the autogen.sh script and then configure I get the error I explained in my previous message. Autoconf is generating a bad configure

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John J. Boyer
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:47:48AM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: Just to add some actual information to this thread: CentOS 5.6: $ hg clone https://liblouisutdml.googlecode.com/hg/ liblouisutdml Thanks for trying this. Unfortunately, the error occurs after the configure script complains

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 06:13:05AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: Thanks for trying this. Unfortunately, the error occurs after the configure script complains about not finding liblouis. I have liblouis compiled, of course, and I have adjusted the PKG_CONFIG_PATH Configure then tries to make

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, John R. Dennison wrote: I'm fairly certain this is going to turn out to be a meatware problem; but since you refuse to post any details at all we'll never know. That and picking up your toys and going home, of course. PEBKAC confirmed. Problem is with the configure.ac

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread Lars Hecking
Thanks for trying this. Unfortunately, the error occurs after the configure script complains about not finding liblouis. I have liblouis compiled, of course, and I have adjusted the PKG_CONFIG_PATH Configure then tries to make the Makefile and produces the wrird error message. I think

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread John J. Boyer
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:50:02PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote: I have found the problem, and liblouisutdml does actually build fine. The environment is not the problem, but the source files. Lars, Please explain this to me. That will really speed up development of this software, which

Re: [CentOS] Bug in CentOS Autotools

2011-07-08 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Lars Hecking wrote: Thanks for trying this. Unfortunately, the error occurs after the configure script complains about not finding liblouis. I have liblouis compiled, of course, and I have adjusted the PKG_CONFIG_PATH Configure then tries to make the Makefile and produces the wrird error