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From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To: Radical NetSurfer <RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: autom4te NOT FOUND ??
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:35:01 +0100
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Am  Wed, 14 Dec 2005, schrieb Radical NetSurfer:
> Howdy!
> 
> I was hoping DJGPP would be able to compile the following gnuchess source...
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/#downloading
> 
> I have gcc 4.0.1 installed, and what I thought was most of the
> _essential_ packages;
> 
> I do have installed both
> amak175b.zip B     509,383 030607 GNU automake 1.7.5 for DJGPP V2
> and
> m4-142b.zip  B     145,179 041101 GNU m4 1.4.2 binaries for DJGPP V2
> (not even sure what that is)
> and
> perl, bash, bison, find, sed, etc., are also all installed.
> 
> I get a message from BASH when trying to execute,
> 
> 2.04$ autoconf
> 
> Can't open perl script "/dev/env/DJDIR/bin/autom4te": No such file or
> directory
> Dec 14 20:41:10 <RadSurfer> (ENOENT)
> Dec 14 20:41:10 <RadSurfer> bash-2.04$
[snip]

As the error message clearly says, the file autom4te is missing or not installed.
This is clear because the perl script autom4te is a new feature introduced with
GNU automake-1.9.6 IIRC. But you have installed a quite old port of automake 1.7.5.
Even the actual port of automake 1.9.4 does not offer autom4te, so it makes no
sense for you to install it at all. In conclusion, there is actually no way for
a DJGPP user to produce configuration scripts using actual features of automake
because there is no modern port available.
Anyway, if you want a working DJGPP installation to produce configure scripts
and Makefiles from original GNU source distributions on WinXP you should look
at:
  ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu
and download at least:
  acnf259b.zip, amak194b.zip, bsh205bb.zip, m4-144b.zip and perl561b.zip.
Those files will install the required binaries, m4 scripts and perl scripts to
produce the configure script and the Makefile. Later, to be able to run the
configure script you will certainly need a lot of packages/binaries more like
sed, grep, fileutils, textutils, etc, etc, etc.
I am working on a port of automake 1.9.6 and bash 3.1 but this will take still
some time, so be very patience. Meanwhile you can start reading the documentation
of automake and autoconf to become familiar with these products.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero