Hi, Jason Van Patten <jvp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sven Neumann wrote: > > are you sure that you run the correct version of aclocal? That would > > be the one that corresponds to the version of automake you > > used. > > Looks like they're the same (1.4) version. > > $ ls -la acloc* automake* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 22 12:56 aclocal -> aclocal-1.4* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11286 Feb 28 2002 aclocal-1.4* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13161 Apr 3 2002 aclocal-1.5* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 22 12:56 automake -> automake-1.4* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 199823 Feb 28 2002 automake-1.4* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216008 Apr 3 2002 automake-1.5* automake-1.4 is too old. We require at least automake-1.6 and prefer 1.7 even. The file HACKING clearly states this requirement. > > Basically you shouldn't run the various auto tools by hand but > > use autogen.sh. > > Where's that usually live? it's a script that is in the CVS tree. It is not part of the GIMP tarball since you shouldn't have to fiddle with the auto tools as a user who builds from tarball and it is likely that you mess things up if you do. Perhaps we should nevertheless distribute it? Salut, Sven
