compiling gnucash on windows, configure: error: perl is not found

Chikelue Oji chike_oji at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 15 07:47:36 EST 2011


Hi Derek,

Thank you very much for your response.
You couldn't see the errors because the two errors weren't logged to the
build log file.

The missing lines are in bold and italics below:

The system cannot find the path specified.
autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /bin/m4
make[2]: *** [autoconf.in] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Anyways, I have attached an screenshot of the errors here.
The picture is clear enough but you could zoom into it to see it more clearly.

Thank you very much.

Cheers,

Chikelue


--- On Fri, 1/14/11, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: compiling gnucash on windows, configure: error: perl is not found
To: "chikeo" <chike_oji at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 8:44 PM

Hi,

chikeo <chike_oji at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have run into about two more errors.
> It has to do with some missing path and not identifying the
> right version of m4.
>
> I queried the version of m4 from the MSYS console and it seems ok. It is GNU
> M4 1.4.7.
>
> Please find the the log inlined below.
>
>
> Build Starting at Thu Jan 13 20:21:31 WCAST 2011
>
[snip]
> ############################################################
> ###  Autotools
> ############################################################
> Extracting autoconf-2.63.tar.bz2 ... done
> Extracting automake-1.10.2.tar.bz2 ... done
[snip]
> rm -f autom4te autom4te.tmp
> srcdir=''; \
>   test -f ./autom4te.in || srcdir=./; \
>   sed -e 's|@SHELL[@]|/bin/sh|g' -e
> 's|@PERL[@]|/c/soft/active-perl/ActivePerl/perl/bin/perl|g' -e
> 's|@bindir[@]|/c/soft/autotools/bin|g' -e
> 's|@datadir[@]|/c/soft/autotools/share/autoconf|g' -e
> 's|@prefix[@]|/c/soft/autotools|g' -e 's|@autoconf-name[@]|'`echo autoconf |
> sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@autoheader-name[@]|'`echo autoheader | sed
> 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@autom4te-name[@]|'`echo autom4te | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e
> 's|@M4[@]|/bin/m4|g' -e 's|@M4_DEBUGFILE[@]|--debugfile|g' -e
> 's|@AWK[@]|gawk|g' -e 's|@RELEASE_YEAR[@]|'`sed
> 's/^\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\).*/\1/;q' ../ChangeLog`'|g' -e
> 's|@VERSION[@]|2.63|g' -e 's|@PACKAGE_NAME[@]|GNU Autoconf|g' -e
> 's|@configure_input[@]|Generated from autom4te.in; do not edit by hand.|g'
> ${srcdir}autom4te.in >autom4te.tmp
> chmod +x autom4te.tmp
> chmod a-w autom4te.tmp
> mv autom4te.tmp autom4te
> autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'        
> ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib         --language M4sh --cache ''
> --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63/bin'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63'

I see no errors here....

-derek

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