[MINC-users] autoconf trouble building minc2

[Rupert Brooks]

Hi,

I'm trying to build minc2 on a linux system which has (apparently) a
different version of autoconf from the one used to create the minc2
configure script.  So when i do

./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-minc2

all seems well, but when i make, i get the error message shown below.
Make is wanting to do some autoconf stuff, and the wrong version of
autoconf is on that machine. The version of autoconf present on the
machine is:

[rupert at nunatak3 rupert]$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

It seems odd to me that the MINC code is distributed still requiring
autoconf to be run?  Is this a bug?  However, it successfully builds
on other systems so perhaps not.  The problem is i really don't know
how to use autoconf - Is there a way i can regenerate the build
scripts so that it will be happy?

I could try and pester the sysadmin to upgrade, but this may not be a
terribly successful road, as the machine is a cluster used by many
researchers and fixing my builds may of course break theirs.

Cheers
Rupert B.

PS - i experienced this with MINC-2.0.13 and 14.

Error messages:
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[rupert at nunatak3 minc-2.0.13]$ make
cd . && /bin/sh
/global/home/rupert/src/minc-2.0.13/ac_config_aux/missing --run
aclocal-1.10 -I m4
/global/home/rupert/src/minc-2.0.13/ac_config_aux/missing: line 54:
aclocal-1.10: command not found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.10' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.  You might want
         to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
         any GNU archive site.
 cd . && /bin/sh
/global/home/rupert/src/minc-2.0.13/ac_config_aux/missing --run
automake-1.10 --gnu
/global/home/rupert/src/minc-2.0.13/ac_config_aux/missing: line 54:
automake-1.10: command not found
WARNING: `automake-1.10' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.
         You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
         Grab them from any GNU archive site.
cd . && /bin/sh
/global/home/rupert/src/minc-2.0.13/ac_config_aux/missing --run
autoconf
aclocal.m4:17: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.
You have another version of autoconf.  If you want to use that,
you should regenerate the build system entirely.
aclocal.m4:17: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
make: *** [configure] Error 1
[rupert at nunatak3 minc-2.0.13]$ autoconf
aclocal.m4:17: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.
You have another version of autoconf.  If you want to use that,
you should regenerate the build system entirely.
aclocal.m4:17: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63



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Rupert Brooks
McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines (www.cim.mcgill.ca)
Ph.D Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
http://www.cyberus.ca/~rbrooks