On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:37 am, Noah Misch wrote: > 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: ...''. Um, okay, but if automake is going to emit the message, then it only makes sense (to me) that automake include the documentation. Also, if you're going to have a AM_GNU_GETTEXT example in the doc, wouldn't it also make sense to have a correct example? Which, of course, raises the question of why the two are not combined, but probably after I locate the gettext distribution, download it, build it, install it and read the doc, I'd probably know the answer. Uh, a bit heavy duty to just get an answer to the question, don't you think? ;-) > > 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 :) Ah. Good. Then I didn't see it. :) > 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? > $ uname -a > Linux bach 2.6.5-7.97-default #1 Fri Jul 2 14:21:59 UTC 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > $ cat /etc/[Ss]*release > SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586) > VERSION = 9 > $ perl -e 'print <*>' > ahAqZXRxam4t1e7x8Oam4tCpTneDam4tiZINdqam4tjiZAF1am4tu48Whq > $ ls > ahAqZXRx am4t1e7x8O am4tCpTneD am4tiZINdq am4tjiZAF1 am4tu48Whq > $ perl --version > > This is perl, v5.8.3 built for i586-linux-thread-multi > > Copyright 1987-2003, Larry Wall In chasing this down, I also noticed that my /tmp directory was packed full of ah* am* cg* ar* directories left lying around. Full of stuff, too. Can I suppose that if I can find the cause of this problem I won't see this ditrius either? Thanks!! - Bruce _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
