Re: [orca-list] broken autogen.sh with rev 2559

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Hi, Yes Joanie, I got exactly what you obtained, but i didn't notice it 
until i piped the 36k log out to file.
The error was close to the head of the file, so its strange that it 
continued on for so long without terminating.

-Jon

On Sat 28/07/2007 at 15:16:07, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Thanks Jon!  The autogen should also spit out a warning/error if
> > automake1.9 cannot be found.  Did you not get that warning/error?
>
> I'm in the midst of doing a clean Feisty install.  I do get the error:
>
> ***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.9 installed
>   to build orca.  Download the appropriate package for
>   from your distribution or get the source tarball at
>   http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.tar.gz
>
> But autogen.sh keeps chugging away and finally gives up with:
>
>     shift: 364: can't shift that many
>
> You have to go looking for where things went wrong.