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Re: Ping autoconf maintainer (was Re: auto tools issues)


Brian Ford wrote:

$ aclocal
[snip underquoted macro definition warnings]
ac-wrapper: /usr/bin/autom4te-2.13 is missing or not executable.
           Something is very wrong.
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1

Any ideas? Thanks.


BTW, according to the http://cygwin.com/packages search, atuom4te-2.31
doesn't exist in any cygwin package.  So, why is it looking for it?

Short version:
you're running the wrong aclocal. The automake tools no longer try to figure out which version of themselves to use; you need to tell them. Run
/usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4
to make automake-1.4 (and aclocal-1.4) the 'active' version on your machine.


Long version:
You're running aclocal from automake-1.9, which tries to invoke unversioned autom4te from (some) autoconf package. There IS an unversioned autom4te in /usr/bin -- which is a new (linux-derived and not home-grown-for-cygwin) wrapper script.


All autoconf wrapper scripts will attempt to deduce the corrent version of their underlying tools to run. This is happening properly in your case; the autom4te script figures out that you need to use the autoconf-2.13 distribution.

So, it tries to launch autom4te-2.13. But that's the ONE case where the wrappers will bomb: because there is no autom4te in -2.13.

The real problem is that aclocal should not have tried to call autom4te in your case -- but its behavior is normal for the automake-1.9.x distribution because 1.9.x REQUIRES autoconf-2.5x or better.

So, ensure that you are using aclocal-1.4 NOT aclocal-1.9. See short version, above.

--
Chuck



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