gnucash-18-branch configure.in

[Neil Williams]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 11:42 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > I can't build under automake2.13 so I can't test whether your Makefile.am
> > patch is required on it's own.
>
> I can go test it again, but 1.8 has worked fine for me on RH9 without
> any kind of change like this.  So I really suspect this is a problem
> with Debian's autotools package.

I'm having a great deal of trouble persuading the Debian developers of this, 
autoconf2.13 is a wrapper package that is more like 2.50+ pretending to be 
2.13. The only answer I've had so far is that the 18 branch appears to him to 
be autoconf2.50+ code and that building it under 2.13 is not possible. I'm 
pursuing it, but I'm being told that wasting his time and should just force 
it to 2.50+, which is clearly the wrong approach.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279532

> The output you've shown me shows that autoheader2.13, and thus
> presumably other Autoconf version 2.13 tools, are being run.
> GnuCash needs the version 2.50+ tools, but you keep insisting
> that 2.13 is the correct version.  That's clearly wrong.  I'm
> sure that many of the libraries that it depends on only work with
> Autoconf 2.50+, so there's no way that GnuCash is going to work
> with 2.13.

I'm now going to see if others on Debian can build it with autoconf2.13 but 
building GnuCash on a system that hasn't got GnuCash already installed does 
add some real work to what it is really a favour.

> Regardless, this patch is not going 
> into the 1.8 configure.in because our 1.8 target doesn't support it.

I've passed that on and I'm continuing to try to resolve the issue.

Does anyone have any clues as to where I should look for these problems?

Google brought up a couple of suggestions about /usr/local/share/aclocal 
(dated 1999) but these have had no effect. 

Derek, just to put my mind at rest, do you get these warnings when you build 
the 18 branch on RH9 or FC1?
configure.in:69: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
cross compiling

I'm thinking that these are just that, a warning, not the error that blocks 
the build. If they appear on other distros, then I'll know that the real 
problem lies here:
/usr/bin/autoheader2.13: line 246:
verbatim=: command not found
/usr/bin/autoheader2.13: line 247: /bin: is a directory
/usr/bin/autoheader2.13: line 251: feof_unlocked, and to 0 if you dont.: 
command not found
/usr/bin/autoheader2.13: line 254:
verbatim=: command not found


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