Here's what happens when I try to do a top-levek bootstrap: m4 at /usr/bin/m4 is OK Bootstrapping with STARCONF_DEFAULT_STARLINK = /stardev STARCONF_DEFAULT_PREFIX = /stardev BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX = /stardev/buildsupport Do we need to build GNU m4? false Updating local repository submodules: ... found uninitialised submodule: thirdparty/rit/match/match thirdparty/kitware/vtk/VTK thirdparty/kitware/vtk/cmake thirdparty/fsf/autoconf thirdparty/norman/dvi2bitmap/dvi2bitmap thirdparty/fsf/automake thirdparty/eso/skycat/skycat thirdparty/tclsys/blt/blt thirdparty/fsf/libtool thirdparty/perlsys/perl/perl applications/smurf/libacsis/specwrite fatal: Needed a single revision Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'thirdparty/eso/skycat/skycat' ... applications/smurf/libacsis/specwrite (subversion-head-2-ga06b766) ... thirdparty/eso/skycat/skycat ... thirdparty/fsf/autoconf ... thirdparty/fsf/automake ... thirdparty/fsf/libtool ... thirdparty/kitware/vtk/VTK ... thirdparty/kitware/vtk/cmake ... thirdparty/norman/dvi2bitmap/dvi2bitmap ... thirdparty/perlsys/perl/perl ... thirdparty/rit/match/match ... thirdparty/tclsys/blt/blt Bootstrapping buildsupport: make -f Makefile.tmp \ prefix=/stardev/buildsupport \ MANIFESTS=/stardev/manifests \ buildsupport cd thirdparty/fsf/autoconf \ && if test -f bootstrap; then \ ./bootstrap > bootstrap.log; \ fi \ && if test -n "$BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX"; then \ ./configure --prefix=$BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX \ >configure-output.log; \ elif test ! -f Makefile; then \ { t="Directory unconfigured but BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX undefined";\ echo $t >configure-output.log; echo $t >&2; \ exit 1; }; \ else \ echo "No configuration necessary" >configure-output.log; \ fi \ && (make && make install) >make.log 2>make.log.err || { cat make.log.err; false; } /bin/sh: ./configure: not found cat: make.log.err: No such file or directory make: *** [/stardev/manifests/autoconf] Error 1 Failed to make buildsupport +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Edward Chapin (604) 822-6709 (work) | | Dept. of Physics and Astronomy | | University of British Columbia | | 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, B.C. | | V6T 1Z1, Canada [log in to unmask] | +----------------------------------------------------------------+