Mark,
> I'm trying to reproduce the updated build system on my desktop machine (RH9)
> and am having various problems. One is if I do a cvs update from scratch
> (checkout -l .; checkout buildsupport libraries applications thirdparty docs)
> followed by a bootstrap I get:
>
> % ./bootstrap
> Bootstrapping with
> STARCONF_DEFAULT_STARLINK = /mbt/starauto
> STARCONF_DEFAULT_PREFIX = /mbt/starauto
> BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX = /mbt/starauto/buildsupport
> Do we need to build GNU m4? false
> ln -s buildsupport/starconf/componentinfo.dtd componentinfo.dtd
> mkdir -p /mbt/starauto/bin
> Bootstrapping buildsupport:
> make -f Makefile.tmp \
> prefix=/mbt/starauto/buildsupport \
> MANIFEST=/mbt/starauto/manifests \
> buildsupport
> cd thirdparty/fsf/autoconf \
> && 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.log && make install-manifest>>make.log
> WARNING: `autoconf' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
> you modified `configure.ac'. You might want to install the
> `Autoconf' and `GNU m4' packages. Grab them from any GNU
> archive site.
> autom4te: freezing produced output:
> autom4te:
> make[3]: *** [autoconf.m4f] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [/mbt/starauto/manifests/autoconf] Error 2
> Failed to make buildsupport
>
> Any ideas?
I also get precisely this problem.
David
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