[bt-devel] Fwd: Re: Bug#170322: autoconf: AC_CONFIG_FILES error

[Martin Gruner]

Just fyi, information concerning the problems that I experienced with 
Automake/Autoconf in BibleTime. The debian package manager investigated into 
the problem.

Martin

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Subject: Re: Bug#170322: autoconf: AC_CONFIG_FILES error
Date: 28 Nov 2002 18:32:52 -0800

Both of you reported problems with Autoconf, whether the Debian
package or the upstream source, as follows:

David Grant <dgrant@iam-net.com> writes:
> Sorry, it's not really a package, it's the kmymoney2 CVS sources

Martin Gruner <mg.pub@gmx.net> writes:
> I am running debian/testing, the same thing happens when I try
> to execute "make -f Makefile.cvs" in the directory of BibleTime
> (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/bibletime/bibletime-1.2.2.tar.bz2?downl
>oad),

I have now looked into the problem.  It is not a problem with
Autoconf, it is a problem with the packages themselves.  Both of
them require Autoconf 2.50 or later due to AC_PREREQ usage in
acinclude.m4, but neither one uses AC_OUTPUT properly for 2.50
and later Autoconf.  Currently, AC_OUTPUT takes no parameters;
older versions of Autoconf accepted a list of files as
arguments.

I am closing this bug because it is not a bug in Autoconf.
Please bring it up with the upstream maintainers of bibletime and
kmymoney2.

Ben