help with ./autogen failure

[John Ralls]

On May 12, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Anthony Della Cioppa <adellaci at sacoriver.net> wrote:

> this is the result;
> 
> sudo apt-get install gettext
> [sudo] password for anthony:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> gettext is already the newest version.
> gettext set to manually installed.
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>  liblaunchpad-integration1 guile-2.0 linux-headers-3.2.0-60-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-60-generic-pae linux-headers-3.2.0-60 guile-2.0-libs libtommath0
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

OK, now check it:
 grep AM_NLS /usr/share/aclocal/nls.m4
should return
  AC_DEFUN([AM_NLS],

If it does, then there's a path problem somewhere such that aclocal (run by autogen.sh) isn't finding it.

Regards,
John Ralls