On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Ray Cole wrote: > I'd installed autoconf from source. I do have a /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.8 > directory. I tried creating a symbolic link from /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.8 > to /usr/share/aclocal but I get the exact same results :-(
But is anything _in_ that directory? I think the underlying problem isn't the directory name (I think automake/aclocal/autoconf know to look for files in versioned directory) but rather nothing is in it. Thus when you run automake (./autogen.sh for mjpegtools is a 1 line shell script that simply performs "autoreconf -f -i" and that runs all the aclocal, libtool, automake, autoconf commands in the right order) the errors pop out because none of the .m4 files can be found. > I'll try cleaning up autoconf and automake completely, re-do the install > of them, and see what happens. And populate the directory with .m4 files by adding in the development packages ;) If the system is of moderately recent vintage then the system provided autoconf/libtool/automake versions will be adequate (autoconf 2.5x is fine, the minimum version of automake needed for mjpegtools was bumped to 1.7 a little while ago). Remember - when you remove and reinstall automake you'll need to populate the .../aclocal* directory with all the .m4 files that belong to the programs/packages you'll be using! So if you do something like "rm -r /usr/share/aclocal*" and then reinstall automake you need to get all the m4 files from somewhere - reinstalling the various packages or something (a clean install making sure that 'matching devel packages' are added would be one way ;) The m4 files in /usr/share/aclocal usually come from -devel packages selected during system installation (that's where the listing I gave as an example came from). m4 files from programs I install myself go into /usr/local/share/aclocal (because I default the $prefix to /usr/local). Good Luck (I think you'll need it ;)). Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users