From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 24 16:50:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E1B106568D for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:50:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.apitz@oclc.org) Received: from hunter.Sisis.de (hunter.sisis.de [193.31.11.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D077E8FC17 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:50:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.apitz@oclc.org) Received: (from mail@localhost) by hunter.Sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25435; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:42:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from matthias.apitz@oclc.org) Received: from ppp-62-245-210-14.dynamic.mnet-online.de(62.245.210.14) by hunter.Sisis.de via smap (V2.1) id xma025391; Mon, 24 Mar 08 17:42:37 +0100 Received: (from guru@localhost) by rebelion.Sisis.de (8.14.2/8.13.8/Submit) id m2OGnn14002322; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:49:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from matthias.apitz@oclc.org) X-Authentication-Warning: rebelion.Sisis.de: guru set sender to matthias.apitz@oclc.org using -f Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:49:49 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080324164949.GA2082@rebelion.Sisis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386) Cc: Ade Lovett Subject: problems with automake110 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:50:15 -0000 Hello, I want to port some application (Ekiga) directly from their SVN to FreeBSD 7.0R which is using $ ./autogen.sh --with-pwlib-dir=/usr/local .... to generate the configure / Makefiles and which fails; the problem seems to be that 'aclocal' or some of the M4 macros used are not working as they should: $ LANG=C aclocal --dry-run /usr/local/share/aclocal/smpeg.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_SMPEG /usr/local/share/aclocal/smpeg.m4:13: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' /usr/local/share/aclocal/smpeg.m4:13: or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal /usr/local/bin/gm4:/usr/local/share/aclocal/pilot-link.m4:1: ERROR: end of file in string autom4te-2.61: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 $ Maybe something is mixed up in the various versions which have been installed by all the ports: $ pkg_info | fgrep automake automake-1.10_3 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.10) automake-1.4.6_4 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.4) automake-1.5_4,1 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.5) automake-1.6.3 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.6) automake-1.7.9 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.7) automake-1.8.5 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.8) automake-1.9.6_2 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.9) automake-wrapper-20071109 Wrapper script for GNU automake gnome-common-2.20.0 Common automake macros for GNOME and GNOME 2 Could someone pls give me an idea how to solve this? Thx in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail?