[savant-users] autoreconf -i, using autoconf version 2.59

[Dale E. Martin]

> I am changing my development environment to a dual G5 running Gentoo
> linux (instead of my old laptop), but when running autoreconf -i
> (autoconf version 2.59, automake version 1.9) I get the following errors:

Are you running off of CVS head?  I.e. have you updated recently?  I'm
running those versions of autotools locally.  Sometimes you get weirdness
if you upgrade autotools on an already configured build directory.  In
those cases I end up doing something like:
make distclean
rm -f `find -name Makefile.in -print`
rm -f `find -name Makefile -print`
rm -rf autom4te.cache config.sub depcomp ltmain.sh configure missing \
  aclocal.m4 install-sh config.guess

And then rerunning "autoreconf -i" and configure and friends.
Alternatively you could see if a fresh checkout will autoreconf/configure
correctly.  That would tell you if there is state in your build system that
is messing things up.
 
I'd also be interested to hear what kind of compile times you see on that
hardware.

Also, what version of libtool and g++ will you be using?

> Questin: how do I prevent, bypass the listed errors?

Start with the suggestions above and let me know if that works.  I see this
very commonly when upgrading autotools...

Thanks,
	Dale
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