Hello Braden, thanks for providing feedback! * Braden McDaniel wrote on Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:17:42AM CEST: > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 07:54 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Paulo J. Matos wrote on Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:34:30PM CET: > > > After running: > > > > > > $ rm -Rf aclocal.m4 autom4te.cache/ config.h.in config.guess > > > config.log config.status config.sub configure depcomp install-sh > > > libtool libltdl/ ltmain.sh missing > > [...] > > > Everything seems ok now. > > > > Hmm. When this next happens, please look at the exact time stamps of > > the files that deal with configure, and everything below autom4te.cache > > (also permissions there). Also, you still did not tell us which system > > this was on. > > I'm observing this problem on a Fedora 9 system; specifically: > > $ autoreconf > acinclude.m4:6596: the serial number must appear before any macro definition > autom4te: cannot open configure: Permission denied > autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 > > The autoconf version is 2.61. The libtool version is 1.5.24. > > I started seeing this after modifying my project to include a local copy > of the libltdl sources. The acinclude.m4 referenced in the error message > is the one in the libltdl subdirectory created by "libtoolize --ltdl". > > Blowing away autom4te.cache does not help. OK, please go in the toplevel source tree and show output of ls -la . libltdl autom4te.cache libltdl/autom4te.cache Thanks, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf