[bt-devel] Makefile.am trouble

Joachim Ansorg bt-devel@crosswire.org
Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:13:08 +0200


Sorry,
I added this but not thought about older versions.

I removed it,

Joachim

> Make problem
> Today when I tried to make bibletime I ran into a problem that confuses
> me.  The first error i found a work around..
>
> Error 1
> _______________________
> [fkskde3@localhost bibletime]$ make -f Makefile.cvs
> This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
> This will be deleted before making the distribution
>
> *** YOU'RE USING AUTOCONF 2.13. We suggest updating.
> *** autoconf 2.5x works best for now, we will drop
> *** support for autoconf 2.13 soon.
> *** 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
> *** Creating config.h template
> *** Creating Makefile templates
> ./Makefile.am:20: option `dist-bzip2' not recognized
> make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> [fkskde3@localhost bibletime]$
>
> -------------------------
> The solution seemed to be comment out line 20, it then reads:
>
> 18# not a GNU package. You can remove this line, if
> 19# have all needed files, that a GNU package needs
> 20# AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign dist-bzip2 Removed by fred saalbach
> 21
> 11 datadir = $(kde_appsdir)/Applications
>
> Now the error is below.  I was not able to figure out anything for this.
> _________________________
>
> [fkskde3@localhost bibletime]$ make -f Makefile.cvs
> This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
> This will be deleted before making the distribution
>
> *** YOU'RE USING AUTOCONF 2.13. We suggest updating.
> *** autoconf 2.5x works best for now, we will drop
> *** support for autoconf 2.13 soon.
> *** 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
> *** Creating config.h template
> *** Creating Makefile templates
> automake: ./Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found
> make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> [fkskde3@localhost bibletime]$