Re: [Swarm-Support] Help installing Swarm on Suse 9.2

[Paul Johnson]

I have built RPMs for Suse a while ago and know it can be done.

My guess about your difficulty is the following.

1) you may have several versions of automake installed.  On RedHat, it 
will install several, and one has an executable called automake and the 
others have names like automake-1.6 or such, and the build will use the 
one called automake.

2) you should erase your build directory between efforts, because some 
mistakes never get undone.

3) it could be you need to re-do the auto configuration steps in order 
to build Swarm. I have no idea why  it would be necessary, but if you 
look in the source code directory, there's a program "autogensh" which 
will do those steps for you.

After that, make your build directory and run your configure command in 
there.

When you have more trouble, please post a complete explanation of what 
happened. If you do  your work in an Emacs shell, we can see every 
single step you typed in and we are more likely to see what's wrong.

pj

ps. I think you could probably take an easy route by getting the src.rpm 
files for blt and Swarm from my site and trying the "rpmbuild --rebuild" 
route.


David Camacho Trujillo wrote:
> Dear Swarmers, 
>  
> We are trying to install swarm on Suse 9.2 without success.  
> We have try different combinations but still we experience some  problems and error 
> messages. 
>  
> The last configurations is as follows: 
>  
> OS Suse 9.2 
> automake ver: 1.6 (we have try also with 1.6.3) 
> autoconf ver: 2.59 
> gcc ver.: 3.3.4 
> Swarm package swarm-2.1.150.20040413 (also we have try the 2.1.1 version) 
>  
> aclocal.m4:141: version mismatch.  This is Automake 1.6, but aclocal.m4 
> aclocal.m4:141: was generated for Automake 1.6.3.  You should recreate 
> aclocal.m4:141: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. 
> configure.in:328: invalid unused variable name: `inst_LDFLAGS' 
> WARNING: `automake-1.6' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your 
>          system.  You might have modified some files without having the 
>          proper tools for further handling them.  Check the `README' file, 
>          it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing 
>          this package.  You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case 
>          some other package would contain this missing `automake-1.6' program. 
> make[4]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/data/src/swarm-2.1.150.20040413/src/space' 
> make[3]: *** [headers] Error 2 
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/data/src/swarm-2.1.150.20040413/src' 
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/src/swarm-2.1.150.20040413/src' 
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/src/swarm-2.1.150.20040413' 
> make: *** [all] Error 2 
>  
> We have checked the related posts (mainly by Paul Johnson, by the way, thanks) and, uninstall 
> everything and reinstall it with consistent versions, but still receiving this kind of messages. 
>  
> I appreciate a lot any help or directions to install it.  
>  
> David Camacho  
>  
>  
>  
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