Windows build: reset.sh / install.sh

[Andreas Köhler]

Hi Charles,

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 19:58 -0700, Charles Day wrote:
> When I run reset.sh followed by install.sh, the build always fails for me as
> seen below.
> 
> ############################################################
> ###  GOffice
> ############################################################
> Extracting goffice-0.4.3.tar.bz2 ... done
> patching file `goffice/Makefile.am'
> patching file `gtk-doc.m4'
> libtoolize: `/c/soft/autotools/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' is serial 48, less
> than 51 in `aclocal.m4'
> To remain compatible, you should update your `aclocal.m4' by running
> aclocal.
> aclocal: couldn't open directory `/c/soft/aqbanking/share/aclocal': No such
> file or directory
> 
> I'm not sure why this happens, but the workaround seems to be to just create
> the missing directory manually:
> mkdir /c/soft/gwenhywfar/share/aclocal
> 
> Then it fails again on another directory, solved by:
> mkdir /c/soft/aqbanking/share/aclocal
> 
> After this, everything runs smoothly.  Any ideas? Is this a bug in
> install.sh or reset.sh?

that is the contents of your ACLOCAL_FLAGS environment variable.  It is
used by aclocal to find .m4 files, but non-existing directories will
make aclocal bark.  Either clean up ACLOCAL_FLAGS or create those
directories.  That is what I am used to do as well :-)

Ciao,
-- andi5

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