I did not examine which version of automake and autoconf that I had installed before I upgraded, but I noticed that with moving to etch, one of them was automatically upgraded and the other was not, so I upgraded the other so they would "match".
Now, I'm running versions: automake: 1.10 autoconf: 2.61 -- William McKeehan On Fri, April 20, 2007 1:36 pm, Tom Russo wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:28:00AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: >> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Tom Russo wrote: >> >> > I have seen this before, it has always been the result of using a version >> > of autoconf/automake that is too old. >> >> You're late to the party, but your info is spot-on. ;-) > > That'll learn me to respond to the middle of threads. > >> FAQ question 4.29 now has this and other debugging info in it for >> this exact error plus other missing file/bad config file sorts of >> problems. Add/revise the text there as necessary. > > The first thing to check in that question should be automake/autoconf, the > other stuff would be red herrings. This question has come up before and > the XASTIR_DATA_BASE variable not being properly set in the makefile is > the normal culprit --- we talked about not doing it that way, but apparently > there's something about the GNU coding standard that requires it to be this > way. Each time it's come up, it has always been automake/autoconf versions > that were to blame. > > Somewhere in our FAQ we list the minimum versions required. I'm not sure > if those minimum versions are even the right ones anymore. I'm using > autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6 these days and they're fine. We might want > to do a quick survey of which versions are actually working properly, and > get that codified in the FAQ more explicitly. Right now it just says > autoconf 2.53 or later and automake 1.6.3 or later. If those versions > still work, great, but if newer versions *don't* work we need to know that > *AND* fix our configure script so it *does* work with newer versions. > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is > one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, > oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
