Re: Download failure for octave source

[sfeam (Ethan Merritt)]

On Tuesday, 06 November 2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 6 November 2012 15:27, Ethan A Merritt <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I decided to check out the octave source in order to be more
> > informed when trying to comment about issues like support of Qt.
> >
> > Unfortunately the git repository at
> >   https://code.google.com/p/qterminal/
> > does not seem to be functioning.  It sends the contents of ./.git
> > and then hangs until timeout.
> 
> Here, just untar this:
> 
>     http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/tmp/qterminal.tar.gz

Thanks.
That allows the rest (I think) of the hg checkout to complete.
However, now I have a problem with autotools.
I get this:

address@hidden octave]$ autoconf
error: you must have libtool 2.2.2 or a more recent version
configure.ac:37: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:51: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
configure.ac:55: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
configure.ac:73: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
configure.ac:223: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_NOTICE
configure.ac:264: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PREPROC_IFELSE
configure.ac:264: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_SOURCE
configure.ac:270: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_RESULT
configure.ac:619: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CACHE_CHECK
configure.ac:646: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_FUNCS
configure.ac:710: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_PUSH
configure.ac:711: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADER
configure.ac:714: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_POP
configure.ac:773: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.ac:957: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_FT2
configure.ac:1897: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O
address@hidden octave]$ ./configure
configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in build-aux 
"."/build-aux


chauvet [52] libtool --version
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b
chauvet [53] autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
chauvet [54] m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.14

Any hints? 
Is the octave configure.ac too old to work with current autotools?

        Ethan


> We're trying to figure out what to do about qterminal. It's right now
> not really part of Octave because the idea was to develop it as a
> separate component so that Qt in general could have a standard
> terminal widget, but this idea doesn't seem to be working. Also, it's
> problematic to have more than a few hg subrepos, as you've witnessed,
> because if one subrepo has connection troubles, well...
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
>