Re: gnulib-tool --avoid problems

[Sam Steingold]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Bruno Haible<address@hidden> wrote:
> Sam Steingold wrote:
>> so I added 'string' to GNULIB_MODULES and now...
>> [all fine]
>> - why do I have to do that?
>
> I have no idea why you had a half, not working 'string' module earlier.
> Without a tarball with all files included, I can't tell.

is it an invitation to send you the tarball?

meanwhile, regexp/gllib/libgnu.a fails to build because make tries to
invoke automake:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sds/src/clisp/current/build-O/regexp'
rm -f libgnu_rx.a
mkdir -p gllib
test -f gllib/Makefile || sh config.status gllib/Makefile depfiles
cd gllib; make; ln libgnu.a ../libgnu_rx.a
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sds/src/clisp/current/build-O/regexp/gllib'
cd .. && make  am--refresh
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/sds/src/clisp/current/build-O/regexp'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `am--refresh'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sds/src/clisp/current/build-O/regexp'
 cd /home/sds/src/clisp/current/modules/regexp && /bin/sh
/home/sds/src/clisp/current/src/build-aux/missing --run automake-1.10
--gnits  gllib/Makefile
configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
gllib/Makefile.am:18: library used but `RANLIB' is undefined
gllib/Makefile.am:18:   The usual way to define `RANLIB' is to add
`AC_PROG_RANLIB'
gllib/Makefile.am:18:   to `configure.in' and run `autoconf' again.
gllib/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
gllib/Makefile.am:   `automake --add-missing' can install `depcomp'
/usr/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear
in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:   The usual way to define
`am__fastdepCC' is to add `AC_PROG_CC'
/usr/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:   to `configure.in' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
/usr/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:   The usual way to define
`AMDEP' is to add one of the compiler tests
/usr/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:     AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX,
AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC,
/usr/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:     AM_PROG_AS, AM_PROG_GCJ, AM_PROG_UPC
/usr/share/automake-1.10/am/depend2.am:   to `configure.in' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
make[2]: *** [/home/sds/src/clisp/current/modules/regexp/gllib/Makefile.in]
Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sds/src/clisp/current/build-O/regexp/gllib'
ln: accessing `libgnu.a': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [libgnu_rx.a] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sds/src/clisp/current/build-O/regexp'
make: *** [regexp] Error 2



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Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>