Re: autoconf problem (was Re: possibly bug with ,@)

[Martin Grabmueller <mgrabmue at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

Hello,

nobody asked me, but since I started this thread, I will answer anyway ;)

> Chris Cramer <crayc@kiwi.pyro.net> writes:
> 
> > > ./configure: line 526: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,'
> > > ./configure: line 526: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION, no-define)'
> > > configure: error: ./configure failed for guile-readline
> > 
> > I got the same problem. I tried using older and older CVS versions to
> > discovered what caused the problem (as I could compile it a few months
> > ago without any problem), but strangely enough even going back before
> > 1.3.4 was released didn't help. I guess it's something in a subdirectory,
> > but I have very little experience with autoconf or m4.
> 
> It seems that there is a problem with your automake installation.
> 
> Do
> 
>   aclocal --version
> 
> and
> 
>   automake --version
> 
> both report automake 1.4?
Yes:
mgrabmue@tortoise (~): aclocal --version
aclocal (GNU automake) 1.4

mgrabmue@tortoise (~): automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.4

mgrabmue@tortoise (~/cvs/guile-core): autoconf --version
Autoconf version 2.13

> 
> Do you get error messages when doing ./autogen.sh ?
> 

mgrabmue@tortoise (~/cvs/guile-core): ./autogen.sh 
configure.in:312: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:121: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:122: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:312: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
guile-readline...
aclocal: configure.in: 8: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library

Thanks for helping,
  'mgrabmue

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