[bt-devel] Documentation - Installation - make problem continued

[Fred Saalbach]

Martin
I uncommented the lines in makefile.in.in that you had commented out. 
That produced an error on each of these lines:
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[fks00@localhost bibletime-doc]$ make -f Makefile.cvs
This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
This will be deleted before making the distribution

*** Creating acinclude.m4
!!! If you get recursion errors from autoconf, it is advisable to set
the
    environment variable M4 to something including "--nesting-limit=500"
*** Creating list of subdirectories
*** Creating configure.in
*** Creating aclocal.m4
*** Creating configure
autoconf: Undefined macros:
configure.in:62:AC_CHECK_STATIC_LINKING(ac_use_static)
configure.in:63:AC_CHECK_SWORD(1.5.3, [$ac_use_static])
configure.in:66:AC_CHECK_DISTRIBUTION
make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
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That did not help, unless these undefined macros are the root of the
problem.
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I do notice something odd about the /bibletime-doc/Makefile

In bibletime-doc, there are a lot of lines that take the form:

SHELL = @SHELL@

while the similar lines in bibletime/Makefile look like: 

SHELL = /bin/sh

It looks like the stage that generates the makefiles from the
Makefile.am and Makefile.in is not replacing the @SHELL@ with the
correct command.  I do not see anything in either Makefile.am and
Makefile.in that is obviously different in format, but i suppose that a
single command or a problem with a called macro could cause the problem
here.

I will post a request in the local users group and see if it results in
any help.

Fred
 

Martin Gruner wrote:
> 
> > I know nothing about how make / auto make works.  I presume that the
> > make files are regerated every time configure runs.  What generates the
> > files that make is tripping up on?
> 
> I don't really know a lot either.
> The admin/ directory contains a whole bunch of automake/autoconf related
> files which are specialized for KDE.
> Now make -f Makefile.cvs creates all the Makefile.in's (from the
> Makefile.am's) and configure. That would be the automake part. Then running
> configure will use your Makefile.in's (contain a lot of placeholders) and
> insert your system specific values. E.g. KDEDIR=/usr.
> 
> > I could try updating automake, autoconf and make from the mandrake
> > cooker, that would get me to automake 1.4, and autoconf 2.5 (if they
> > work).  Do you think I should try this?
> 
> Since some users might be using your versions it would be most nice to find
> out why it doesn't work. Even in the packages you still have to run
> configure, which might not work.
> What puzzles me is that the main bibletime module works for you, but the
> bibletime-doc won't. This is probably where you should take a look. The
> configure.in.in file is the most central place here. I modified it a bit for
> the new needs -- probably the solution is here. Maybe I commented out
> something the older automake/autoconf system needs?
> Maybe you can look into this a little, and if you don't get it running you
> could probably seek help from other mandrake users/developers?
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Martin