On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:28:36AM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > > $ autoreconf > > autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION > 1. The automake example of AM_GNU_GETTEXT does not show > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION being used in conjunction with it. > In fact, it isn't even documented at all. See the gettext documentation. `autopoint' uses AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION (and fails without it), so `autoreconf' does not run `autopoint' if `configure.ac' does not call `AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION'. This is not actually a fatal error; the message probably should begin ``autoreconf: warning: ...''. > 2. Surely the message, "cannot empty /tmp/ar0.4849: Is a directory" > can be made more meaningful. What _does_ it mean? > (Besides being the error message "rm" will give you. :) The message is not meaningful because this Never Happens :) autoreconf tried to delete the contents of its temporary directory, and then the directory itself. The former failed silently, so the latter failed noisely. I hit this once before with a broken Perl (Slackware 3.3, 5.004_03 IIRC) where Perl's globbing mysteriously returned an empty list every time. You can try a simple `perl -e 'print <*>' in a nonempty directory; if it prints nothing, that is your problem, too. It certainly may be something entirely different, though. What type of system is this? What version of Perl? _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
