FW: Autogen problems on Lion 3.5.91

[Robinson, Melvin D]

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From: Robinson, Melvin D
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 10:42 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Autogen problems on Lion 3.5.91

Happy New Year!

 

Can someone give me some ideas as to what's wrong with my MacOS X Lion configuration that would cause this error when trying to run autogen.sh:

 

bootstrapping...
build-aux/bootstrap: Error: --no-git requires --gnulib-srcdir

 

I've installed MacPorts and am following Ben Abbott's wonderful instructions on this page:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-bug-tracker/2011-12/msg00306.html

 

Well, everything went fine except that the build bombed on the when building the final documentation, then I realized that I had not auto gen'd before configuring (a problem that Marco helped me out on on this list).  So after trying to ./autogen.sh I received the above error.  Git is on my system in /usr/bin/git and does seem to work because I tried to follow John Eaton's instruction on this page: http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/gnulib-install-hang-td3305507.html .  Here the final suggestion of git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib gnulib indeed downloads the sources, but bootstrap warns of not using checked out sources and goes no further.

 

Any ideas of what I should try next?