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Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:09:02 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: Ping autoconf maintainer (was Re: auto tools issues)
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Brian Ford wrote:

>>$ aclocal
>>[snip underquoted macro definition warnings]
>>ac-wrapper: /usr/bin/autom4te-2.13 is missing or not executable.
>>            Something is very wrong.
>>aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
>>
>>Any ideas?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> BTW, according to the http://cygwin.com/packages search, atuom4te-2.31
> doesn't exist in any cygwin package.  So, why is it looking for it?

Short version:
you're running the wrong aclocal.  The automake tools no longer try to 
figure out which version of themselves to use; you need to tell them.  Run
   /usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4
to make automake-1.4 (and aclocal-1.4) the 'active' version on your machine.

Long version:
You're running aclocal from automake-1.9, which tries to invoke 
unversioned autom4te from (some) autoconf package.  There IS an 
unversioned autom4te in /usr/bin -- which is a new (linux-derived and 
not home-grown-for-cygwin) wrapper script.

All autoconf wrapper scripts will attempt to deduce the corrent version 
of their underlying tools to run.  This is happening properly in your 
case; the autom4te script figures out that you need to use the 
autoconf-2.13 distribution.

So, it tries to launch autom4te-2.13.  But that's the ONE case where the 
wrappers will bomb: because there is no autom4te in -2.13.

The real problem is that aclocal should not have tried to call autom4te 
in your case -- but its behavior is normal for the automake-1.9.x 
distribution because 1.9.x REQUIRES autoconf-2.5x or better.

So, ensure that you are using aclocal-1.4 NOT aclocal-1.9.  See short 
version, above.

--
Chuck



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