Error During Autoconf

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Joe Sprankle <jsprankle at awlship.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 21:37 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Joe Sprankle <jsprankle at awlship.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > Brand new to this.
>> > I'm attempting to learn to build kdrive and not off to a good start.
>> > Configure.ac says to run autoconf to create configure script.
>> > I'm receiving the following error:
>> >
>> > foo at foo:~/Desktop/xorg-server-1.6.1.901$ autoconf
>> > configure.ac:31: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>> >      If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>> > m4_pattern_allow.
>> >      See the Autoconf documentation.
>>
>
>> Sounds like you don't have automake installed.
> automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.10.2
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Right, now I remember what the issue is. You need to run aclocal first
so that the automake m4 macros are pulled in. However, just run the
autogen.sh script or "autoreconf -iv".

--
Dan