Re: error when building

[Ben Pfaff]

I think that I've now fixed this problem.  Thanks for the hint.
"distclean" was deleting the testsuite, which it should not have done.

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:30:51AM +0100, Harry Thijssen wrote:
> I was building from Ben's daily tarball which is, as far as I know,
> identical to a released tarball.
> 
> BTW it happens in the second build after a distclean. So maybe the problem
> has soemthing to do with disctclean.
> 
> So it is a bug?
> 
> Have fun
> 
> 2017-03-09 6:58 GMT+01:00 John Darrington <address@hidden>:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:38:36PM +0100, Harry Thijssen wrote:
> >
> >      When I try to build pspp for MSWindows I get:
> >
> >      /usr/bin/sed -e '/^"POT-Creation-Date: /d' po/zh_CN.po,tmp >
> >      po/zh_CN.po,tmp2
> >      rm -f po/zh_CN.po,tmp
> >      mv po/zh_CN.po,tmp2 po/zh_CN.po
> >      POFILES="po/ca.po po/de.po po/el.po po/es.po po/fr.po po/gl.po
> > po/hu.po
> >      po/ja.po po/lt.po po/nl.po po/pl.po po/pt_BR.po po/ru.po po/sl.po
> > po/tr.po
> >      po/uk.po po/zh_CN.po" top_builddir="." /bin/sh
> >      src/ui/gui/gen-dot-desktop.sh > src/ui/gui/pspp.desktop
> >      /bin/sh ./build-aux/missing --run autom4te --language=autotest -I '.'
> > tests/
> >      testsuite.at | /usr/bin/sed 's/@<00A0>@/ /g' > tests/testsuite.tmp
> >      ./build-aux/missing: line 81: autom4te: command not found
> >      WARNING: 'autom4te' is missing on your system.
> >               You might have modified some maintainer files that require
> >               the 'autom4te' program to be rebuilt.
> >               The 'autom4te' program is part of the GNU Autoconf package:
> >               <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
> >               It also requires GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
> >               <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
> >               <http://www.perl.org/>
> >      test -s tests/testsuite.tmp
> >      Makefile:12456: recipe for target 'tests/testsuite' failed
> >      make[2]: *** [tests/testsuite] Error 1
> >
> >
> >      Is this an error?
> >
> > It depends:
> >
> > If you are building from a released tarball, then the answer is "yes".
> >
> > However, if you are building from (say) a git snapshot, then "no"; it means
> > that you haven't got autoconf installed (or your system can't find it).
> > See the file README.Git for details of what exactly you need to build
> > from a Git checkout.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > J'
> >
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