configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

[Samuel Wales]

$ ./configure --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=no
--with-tiff=no --with-ns
./configure: line 2537: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

This is with latest git emacs from git://repo.or.cz/emacs.git on OSX.
I don't know if it's relevant, but autoconf is version 2.68.

What should I check for next?

Thanks.

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Re: configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.06.2011 um 23:12 schrieb Samuel Wales:

> ./configure: line 2537: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found


Could be you just need up-to-date versions of autoconf (2.68) and  
maybe also automake (1.11)...

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Re: configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

[Samuel Wales]

Hi Peter,

On 2011-06-20, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
> Could be you just need up-to-date versions of autoconf (2.68) and
> maybe also automake (1.11)...

As I wrote, autoconf is at 2.68.  :)

automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

Samuel

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Re: configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.06.2011 um 19:30 schrieb Samuel Wales:

> Any other ideas?


See whether 'make clean', 'make mostlyclean', 'make distclean' solve  
the situation!

Update (bzr pull -v) and try again!


For me, on Mac OS X 10.5.8/PPC, last updated 12 h ago, configuration  
for the NS variant works with MacPorts installed and quite up-to-date.

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Re: configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

[Samuel Wales]

On 2011-06-20, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
> See whether 'make clean', 'make mostlyclean', 'make distclean' solve
> the situation!

All three of those commands produce the same error.

> Update (bzr pull -v) and try again!

Is it OK to use the git version?

git pull -v.

This time the remote connection hung up unexpectedly.  So I deleted
all files and directories, checked out head, and ran ./configure.

Does not exist.

Here I am stuck.

I am unfamiliar with these tools.  Just in case, I ran autoconf,
because INSTALL said it makes configure.  It does not recommend
bypassing configure: "CONFIGURATION BY HAND ...  This should not be
necessary and is not recommended."

Similar error.

Ran autoconf again.  No error this time.

Ran ./configure

Same error.

Of course all this last stuff is me not knowing what I am doing with
these tools, not me saying they should work.

Re: configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.06.2011 um 23:53 schrieb Samuel Wales:

>> Update (bzr pull -v) and try again!
>
> Is it OK to use the git version?

I don't know! In my assumption the GIT repository is a bit unofficial...

> Ran ./configure
>
> Same error.

In which tool are you running git and configure? Emacs? In compilation- 
mode? Is PATH set correctly that the up-to-date tools are found? (In a  
shell 'echo $PATH ; which autoconf automake' will work, in a  
*compilation* buffer the same as compile command works as well.)

>
> Of course all this last stuff is me not knowing what I am doing with
> these tools, not me saying they should work.


I am also kind of a newbie with these tools. OTOH, I am pretty sure  
that one does not need to know how these tools work and how and why  
they get invoked. Usually the configure script and make/Makefile know  
exactly what they need to do. My assumption is that two things can be  
wrong: your environment (PATH value, tools, their versions) or the  
source. The latter gets healed automatically... Waiting one or two  
(more) days should help. (Otherwise you could send an eMail to the  
address given when you select 'Send Bug Report…' from the Help menu.)

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Re: configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

[Samuel Wales]

On 2011-06-20, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
> In which tool are you running git and configure? Emacs? In compilation-

Mac terminal.

I tried Emacs shell mode in the past.  That does not work because it
sets env variables.  I would prefer to use Emacs if it did work.

> mode? Is PATH set correctly that the up-to-date tools are found? (In a

Yes.

> source. The latter gets healed automatically... Waiting one or two
> (more) days should help. (Otherwise you could send an eMail to the

I have waited months, trying every once in a while.

Re: configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.06.2011 um 01:15 schrieb Samuel Wales:

> I have waited months, trying every once in a while.


Ever sent a "bug report"? Or to emacs-devel list.


BTW, compile-mode is really nice! You can start your "compile command"  
with nice or env THIS=some/setting <compile command, i.e., configure  
or make>.

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Re: configuring emacs: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found

[Samuel Wales]

On 2011-06-20, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
> Ever sent a "bug report"? Or to emacs-devel list.

I like to make sure it is not user error first.