Re: ORBit, CVS 2/15/99, AC_TRY_RUN problem

[Andrew Clausen <clausen alphalink com au>]

Radovan Semancik wrote:

> > Chances are you are getting a default symlink created for config.log
> > pointing to someplace that you don't have permission to write to.
>
> yeah, the was the problem ...
>
> > What you want to do is something like:
> >     cd ORBit/popt
> >     rm -f config.log
> >     touch config.log
> >     cd ..
> >     ./autogen.sh
>
> Ok, tryed ti and the result si:
>
> blah blah blah
> configuring in popt
> running /bin/sh ./configure  --enable-maintainer-mode
> --prefix=/opt/gnome --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> loading cache .././config.cache
> .... blah blah blah ...
> updating cache .././config.cache
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> sed: can't read ./Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> creating po/Makefile.in
> creating config.h
>
> Now type 'make' to compile ORBit.
> radovan:[~/dl/gnome/CVS/ORBit]>make
> cd . && autoheader
> configure.in:184: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
> cross compiling
> .... some more of these ...
> configure.in:265: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
> cross compiling
> make all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/semancik/dl/gnome/CVS/ORBit'
> Making all in popt
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/semancik/dl/gnome/CVS/ORBit/popt'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/semancik/dl/gnome/CVS/ORBit/popt'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/semancik/dl/gnome/CVS/ORBit'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>
> Why is the Makefile.in missing?

Makefile.in is generated from Makefile.am by automake (which is called from
autogen.sh)Can you post all of your output?  (Or everything up to/including
automake would be better...)

Note:  that AC_TRY_RUN thing is harmless.

Andrew Clausen