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Subject: Re: autom4te NOT FOUND ??
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:01:48 -0500
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Setting the PERL environment variable has no effect;
I hope you understood that Perl.exe  _is_  found; 
but that is where it just stops and waits forever....
I have to Control-C out of Bash 2.05b

Here's the info for you, hopefully with more details:

bash-2.05b$ which perl
/dev/f/djgpp/bin/perl.exe

bash-2.05b$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for dos-djgpp
Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

bash-2.05b$ which autoconf
/dev/f/djgpp/bin/autoconf

bash-2.05b$ which aclocal
/dev/f/djgpp/bin/aclocal

bash-2.05b$ which automake
/dev/f/djgpp/bin/automake

Running: 

1) autoconf
2) autoreconf
3) automake
ALL show grep/perl flashing in the 4DOS windows
   console screen, twice, then all I see if PERL
   and it just sits and waits indefinately!

Here's some other information that might help
you identify what is (or has been) installed;

I was told to install some of the "beta" packages,
because they are apparently newer; although some
do point out that they have not yet been fully tested
at least at the time they were uploaded to Delorie's
ftp/html download pages.

F:\DJGPP\gnu\autoconf-2.59
F:\DJGPP\gnu\automake-1.94
F:\DJGPP\gnu\bash-2.05b
F:\DJGPP\gnu\binutl-2.161
F:\DJGPP\gnu\bison-2.1
F:\DJGPP\gnu\filutil4.1
F:\DJGPP\gnu\findutil.41
F:\DJGPP\gnu\gawk-3.1-4
F:\DJGPP\gnu\gcc-4.01
F:\DJGPP\gnu\libtool1.5
F:\DJGPP\gnu\m4-1.4-4
F:\DJGPP\gnu\make-3.80
F:\DJGPP\gnu\man13b
F:\DJGPP\gnu\perl.561
F:\DJGPP\gnu\sh-util2.01
F:\DJGPP\gnu\txtutil2.0
F:\DJGPP\gnu\which211

Again, using your suggestion leading up to running
`aclocal`, also produces the same identical effect:
perl appears in the 4DOS windowed shell and just sits
and waits indefinitely until I press Control-C....
(30 minutes or more can pass).

This is a 1 ghz Intel Pentium 3, 128mb ram.

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:40:34 +0000 (UTC), Doug Kaufman
<dkaufman AT rahul DOT net> wrote:

>Radical NetSurfer <RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
>>http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/#downloading
>> ...
[[snippity snip]]

>
>Ordinarily this shouldn't happen. Which version of autoconf are you
>trying to run? Do you have another version of autoconf also installed?
>Is this an autoconf that you built and installed yourself, or one of the
>prebuilt packages? Overall this sounds like a problem with your autoconf
>installation.
>
>If you run "which perl" and "which autoconf", do you get the DJGPP
>programs that you expected?
>
>When trying to port a GNU program like this, I usually start by
>removing the files configure, aclocal.m4, config.h.in, and Makefile.in,
>then run: aclocal, libtoolize (if necessary), autoheader, "automake -a",
>and then autoconf. This is usually easier than trying to find out why
>the generated files in the distribution might not work in DJGPP.
>
>                                Doug