Nick Rizzolo wrote: > A quick search of Google and this mailing list's archives couldn't > help me, so hopefully someone on this list can. I'm new to autotools, > and I'm trying to follow the tutorial at > http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Alexandre.Duret-Lutz/autotools.html > which seems to be very up-to-date. It includes a Hello World example > that is also given in the automake manual at > http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Creating-amhello I am sure that you have the following from those tutorials in your configure.ac file: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign]) > configure.ac:2: option `-Wall' not recognized > configure.ac:2: option `-Wall' not recognized > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 This means that automake did not recognize the -Wall option and failed. > automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3 The current automake-1.10 will recognize that option okay. Get the latest version of automake and install it. http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/ > autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57 Repeat with the process to get the current autoconf-2.61. http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf/ But wait! Autoconf heavily depends upon m4 and the new autoconf requires at least m4-1.4.8. http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4/ And at after that you will probably need a current gettext-1.16.1 too. So this is the complete list as I know it. Update these and make sure you have m4-1.4.8 available before building autoconf or the resulting autoconf will not work right. (Unfortunately it will still pass all of the tests though.) gettext-1.16.1 m4-1.4.8 autoconf-2.61 automake-1.10 The autoconf and automake programs are developer tools. When you make a distribution of your project everything will be self-contained. A downstream builder building your project will not need to have those versions installed. They will simply run ./configure and use the bundled files. Hope that helps. Bob _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
