Hi CLN mailing list, When I built CLN, it failed making it. "autoconf/missing" requires automake-1.14. This dependency isn't listed in the install/build documentation ( https://www.ginac.de/CLN/cln.html#Installing-the-library). Building was successful after installing this dependency. I think it should either be listed 1.14 is specifically needed, or the source should be edited to support the latest version (which is 1.16 at the moment). With kind regards, Luc
Hi Luc, On 27.03.19 18:20, Luc de Jonckheere wrote:
When I built CLN, it failed making it. "autoconf/missing" requires automake-1.14.
This dependency isn't listed in the install/build documentation (https://www.ginac.de/CLN/cln.html#Installing-the-library). Building was successful after installing this dependency.
I think it should either be listed 1.14 is specifically needed, or the source should be edited to support the latest version (which is 1.16 at the moment).
I don't see this dependency. As a matter of fact, I've no trouble building CLN on a Debian system with automake 1.16. Can you, please, describe precisely how you built CLN and how it failed? All my best, -richy. PS: Also, please subscribe to the list. Otherwise, it is sheer luck whether your email get's through or not (and when).
Hi Luc, Luc de Jonckheere wrote:
When I built CLN, it failed making it. "autoconf/missing" requires automake-1.14.
This dependency isn't listed in the install/build documentation ( https://www.ginac.de/CLN/cln.html#Installing-the-library). Building was successful after installing this dependency.
The documentation describes how to build the package, starting from a source tarball. For how to build a git checkout, you typically need to look at the files README, INSTALL, HACKING, README-hacking, or similar, in the top-level directory. In the case of CLN, it's the INSTALL file. When you start building from a git checkout, we assume you know what it takes to generate a configure file (i.e. make sure you have m4, autoconf, automake, libtool installed). You didn't say which of the two things you are doing. If you got that error message when building a tarball, then the tarball is broken; please tell us which tarball it is, so that we can replace it. Bruno
Hi Bruno and Richy, Sorry for the late respons. I didn't expect both developers to respond so quickly! I used the cln-1.3.4.tar.bz2. I have the all the required build tools installed and updated (to the latest version in the Arch repo). The commands used (from /path/to/project/lib/cln-1.3.4): $ /path/to/src/cln-1.3.4/configure --prefix=/path/to/project/lib/cln-1.3.4 --with-gmp=/path/to/project/lib/gmp-6.1.2 --enable-static --disable-shared $ make cd /path/to/source/cln-1.3.4 && /bin/sh /path/to/src/cln-1.3.4/autoconf/missing automake-1.14 --foreign /path/to/source/cln-1.3.4/autoconf/missing: line 81: automake-1.14: command not found WARNING: 'automake-1.14' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified 'Makefile.am' or 'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'. The 'automake' program is part of the GNU Automake package: <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake> It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf> <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/> <http://www.perl.org/> make: *** [Makefile:488: /path/to/source/cln-1.3.4/Makefile.in] Error 1 While trying to reproduce the error, I also got the same error but with aclocal-1.14 instead of automake-1.14. I have 1.16 installed for both of these tools. If there is anything else I should check which might help you, just ask. I'm sorry if this problem is related to my system specific, however, I did find some occurances of "1.14" in the configure script and the aclocal.m4. When I install automake-1.14, I don't have any problems, so the rest of the build process works fine. With kind regards, Luc On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 02:04, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
Hi Luc,
Luc de Jonckheere wrote:
When I built CLN, it failed making it. "autoconf/missing" requires automake-1.14.
This dependency isn't listed in the install/build documentation ( https://www.ginac.de/CLN/cln.html#Installing-the-library). Building was successful after installing this dependency.
The documentation describes how to build the package, starting from a source tarball.
For how to build a git checkout, you typically need to look at the files README, INSTALL, HACKING, README-hacking, or similar, in the top-level directory. In the case of CLN, it's the INSTALL file. When you start building from a git checkout, we assume you know what it takes to generate a configure file (i.e. make sure you have m4, autoconf, automake, libtool installed).
You didn't say which of the two things you are doing. If you got that error message when building a tarball, then the tarball is broken; please tell us which tarball it is, so that we can replace it.
Bruno
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