Manuel Carro wrote:
BTW, I just tried downloading the latest CVS snapshot (followingto the letter the web directions :-) and autoconf gives the following error:
[boris@balboa ppl]$ autoconf configure.ac > configure configure.ac:28: /usr/bin/m4: Bad expression in eval (bad input): 0 + 13 * 1000 + 2 * 1000000 < 0 + 52g * 1000 + 2 * 1000000 autoconf: Undefined macros: configure.ac:270:AC_DISABLE_SHARED configure.ac:271:AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN configure.ac:272:AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL configure.ac:273:AC_PROG_LIBTOOL configure.ac:94:AC_CHECK_GMP
The resulting 'configure' file is wrong (it just breaks). I hadnever used autoconf before. What am I doing wrong?
Hi there,
it is a good thing to work with the CVS version, since 0.3 is, by now, very old.
The first thing I would check is that you have the right versions of autoconf, automake, and libtool. If you want to be absolutely safe, just get the latest versions: download
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.6.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.4.2.tar.gz
configure them and install them as usual. Then you should not call autoconf directly but invoke
autoreconf -f
in the root directoty of the PPL sources (i.e., the one containing the configure.ac file). This will create all the files needed for autoconfiguration. You should then create a build directory (it is recommended to have this separate from the source directory) and then configure as usual. Do not hesitate to contact us if something is unclear or goes wrong. Ciao
Roberto