From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Error from automake.sg Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 13:43:31 -0400 Message-ID: <19951.46275.322520.849256@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307561064 5051 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2011 19:24:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 21:24:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUOMU-0007oj-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:24:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUOMT-0005jh-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:24:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40261) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUMn0-0003Ij-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUMmz-0002NK-Br for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:33898) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUMmz-0002NB-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55729) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUMmx-0002gh-No; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:43:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: X-Attribution: GM X-Mailer: VM (www.wonderworks.com/vm), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs) X-Hue: red X-Ran: bob>u,d^/v]TdR~](pa9LD(s.CdNHNa+ZT,t3h=PH7kVe\12b(TF7"l}FCzG|*ky#>~>sj X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140306 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote (on Wed, 8 Jun 2011 at 13:36 -0400): > autoreconf -f -i -I m4 > > It gave me the same error message about recreating aclocal.m4 with aclocal. > It doesn't say where to get information about how to do that. autoreconf is a wrapper that calls aclocal and all the other necessary tools for you. For some unknown reason (I suggested looking at bzr status output), yours seems to have an internal error, essentially. Try: rm configure aclocal.m4 src/config.in lib/Makefile.in rm compile config.guess config.sub depcomp install-sh missing autoreconf -f -i -I m4