automake and autoconf... how to get rid off?

soul_rebel

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Wednesday, June 1st 2005, 4:59pm

i developed a project in kdevelop and i realised when trying to install the app manually i always need to

	Source code
1	WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" gmake -f Makefile.cvs

before i can configure... this is a) rather unhandy and its not the standard ./configure + gmake + gmake install but most importantly b) it wont work on platforms that dont have (the apropriate versions of) the tools installed.
other than being a new dependancy this is especially uncool considering that openbsd (a target platform of the project) does not have automake 1.6 in its ports tree AT ALL...
i would be grateful if someone told me how to remove this dependancy or at least create compatibility with older versions of automake (and autoconf).
thanks

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mart_k

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Thursday, June 2nd 2005, 6:59am

RE: automake and autoconf... how to get rid off?

Does Makefile.cvs not simple create a configure-script? I think the way it should be is that a configure script is genenerated on your computer and that that file is distributed with your package. That way, no dependency for automake and autoconf is neccesairy.

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soul_rebel

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Thursday, June 2nd 2005, 4:42pm

hm seems like he does need them later...
i did do the gmake Makefile.cvs on mz freebsd machine, but when i do gmake after a succesful configure on mz openbsd box i get:

Source code

bash-3.00$ gmake
cd . && rm -f configure
cd . && gmake -f admin/Makefile.common configure
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/hannes/kports'
configure.in:39: error: Autoconf version 2.58 or higher is required

aclocal.m4:446: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...

configure.in:39: the top level

autom4te-2.54: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
gmake[1]: *** [configure] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hannes/kports'
gmake: *** [configure] Error 2

btw autoconf 2.58 is isntalled on the obsd box
thanks for zour help

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anda_skoa

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Friday, June 3rd 2005, 12:00pm

Maybe it sets that as a minimum requirement somewhere.

Check the main Makefile.am or the files in admin/ for AUTOMAKE or something similar.

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soul_rebel

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Friday, June 3rd 2005, 8:17pm

argh.... after a long while i figured out that the program just needs automake and autoconf... i even made it to get automake-1.6.2 working on obsd ...just to realise that my program dpends on kde3.4 afterall (kde3.4 is not yet available on obsd

)
thanks fopr the help anyway

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