Re: I may be stupid, but I can't build CVS

[Akim Demaille]

| Hmmm...something may be very wrong on my side.  I tried the new
| instructions (but still using 2.53 autoconf), and got the exact same
| problem...no makefile in intl/
| 
| So, I tried upgrading autoconf to 2.53a...it dies even earlier.  autoreconf
| -f -v -i dies with:

That's very weird.  But did you start from scratch?  The main problem
is that at some step of the procedure, one of the tools destroys some
of the files.  So you might have completely messed it up without
knowing it.  I strongly suggest that you start with a fresh check out.

| configure.in: installing `config/mkinstalldirs'
| configure.in: installing `config/missing'
| aclocal.m4:1829: installing `config/config.guess'
| aclocal.m4:1829: installing `config/config.sub'
| Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
| configure.in:27: required file `./config.hin' not found
| doc/Makefile.am:3: installing `config/mdate-sh'
| doc/Makefile.am:3: installing `config/texinfo.tex'
| lib/Makefile.am:18: installing `lib/ansi2knr.c'
| lib/Makefile.am:18: installing `lib/ansi2knr.1'
| automake: processing Makefiles another time to fix them up.
| autoreconf: running: autoconf --force
| configure.in:32: error: `intl/Makefile' is already registered with
| AC_CONFIG_FIL
| ES.

This is exactly the sign of the problem I was referring to.

| autoconf/status.m4:831: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
| configure.in:32: the top level
| autoreconf: autoconf failed with exit status: 1
|  at /usr/local/bin/autoreconf line 475
| 
| 
| 
| P.S. I noted that you require gettext 0.10.1 in the README-cvs file; but I
| upgraded to 0.11 like you noted in your first message...any chance of a
| problem there?

I don't think so, but I recommend that you upgrade, indeed.



Don't give up!  I predict this time it will work :)