Re: configure error message: ./configure: line 1752: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dia, 0.96+svn)'

["Sameer Sahasrabuddhe" <sameerds gmail com>]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Paul Sanfilippo <pjsanfil gmail com> wrote:

> I ran automake and got a configure file, but received an error message
> when running the configure file.  The error message is (the following
> 2 lines):

It is not enough to run automake. Run ./autogen.sh instead, which
handles all the appropriate actions.

> ./configure: line 1752: syntax error near unexpected token `dia,0.96+svn'
> ./configure: line 1752: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dia,0.96+svn)'
>
> The lines in question in the configure file are:
> AC_INIT(dia,0.96+svn)
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dia,0.96+svn)

The ./configure script is not supposed to contain anything other than
portable shell commands. Running ./autogen.sh should correctly
translate all the AM_ and AC_ macros into appropriate commands.

Sameer.
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