[PPL-devel] Generating Autotools files without autoreconf

[Roberto Bagnara]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it> writes:
> 
>> In other words, we would need something that acts like autoreconf except
>> for the fact that it would not attempt to build configure from configure.ac.
> 
> $ AUTOCONF=true autoreconf ...

Hi Andreas,

it would have been nice and simple, but it does not work.
We get:

$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.cs.unipr.it:/cvs/ppl co ppl
$ cd ppl
$ mv configure.repo configure
$ mv Watchdog/configure.repo Watchdog/configure
$ AUTOCONF=true autoreconf
configure.ac:29: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required
configure.ac:29: the top level
autom4te: /usr/local/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63

Adding -v we get:

$ AUTOCONF=true autoreconf -v
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4
configure.ac:29: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required
configure.ac:29: the top level
autom4te: /usr/local/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63

Note that:

$ autoreconf --version
autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

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Thanks,

    Roberto

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