Many thanks Peter for your answer. That page was exactly what I was looking for. I suppose I was in too much of a hurry. I didn't developer links on the page R page and quick google didn't give me anything.
That's great, thanks! On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Ramón Fallon <ramonfal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick mail to mention that I cannot generate a new configure script > using autoconf or autoreconf. I had edited the configure.ac and thought > ... "oh, that's my fault", but then I tried it on R-patched and R-3.4.1 > without touching configure.ac and had the same problems. > > The "building R packages" documentation seems to suggest that "autoconf" > should take care of it, but I must be missing something as I expect it to > be a common task. > > I also tried explicit autohell (yes, I know) commands > 1) autoreconf --force -v > completes but invoking configure (with no options) gives > > checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > loading site script './config.site' > loading build-specific script './config.site' > ./configure: line 2982: syntax error near unexpected token `blas' > ./configure: line 2982: ` withval=$with_blas; R_ARG_USE(blas)' > > OK.. there's a recipe that oen can use, starting with: > > libtoolize --force > > but you get: > > A sequence typical found out there, starting withlibtoolize: putting > auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `tools'. > libtoolize: linking file `tools/ltmain.sh' > libtoolize: You should add the contents of the following files to > `aclocal.m4': > libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' > libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4' > libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4' > libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4' > libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4' > libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac > and > libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros > in-tree. > libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. > > > then: > > aclocal > autoheader > automake --force-missing --add-missing > > first two go OK, but the third gives > > configure.ac: no proper invocation of > was found. > configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, > configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, > configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using > aclocal). > automake: no `Makefile.am' found for any configure output > > then the following runs OK > autoconf > > but running configure gives the same BLAS error. > > But I'm farily sure one shouldn't run to see what's wrong with BLAS,ratehr > it's just the configure options not being read properly. The > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE > issue definitely seems important. > > Is there anything I'm missing? > > Cheers and thanks in advance! > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel