[MINC-users] autoconf trouble building minc2

[Rupert Brooks]

Andrew

It must be a messed up time stamp issue. It builds fine in /tmp.  I
can't detect the time difference doing something like

date;touch foo;ls -l foo

so it must be pretty small.

Anyways im good to go now.

Rupert

On Nov 12, 2007 7:07 AM, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rupert,
>
> You are right, this is not supposed to happen.  Are you perhaps
> building this on an NFS mounted dir in which build time-stamps are
> getting messed with?  You can test this by building in /tmp (providing
> this is also not NFS mounted!)
>
> I will be most interested to know how you get on as this is supposed
> to be the advantage of autoconf/automake!
>
> In any case, you can always just download and install
> autoconf/automake and thus aclocal in your own directory. they are
> just big fandangled perl scripts in the most part and are perfectly
> happy to be configured like this:
>
>   ./configure --prefix=~rbrooks/opt
>
> a
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 4:23 AM, Rupert Brooks <rupe.brooks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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:
> > ==========================================================
> > [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
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > Rupert Brooks
> > McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines (www.cim.mcgill.ca)
> > Ph.D Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
> > http://www.cyberus.ca/~rbrooks
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> >
>
>
>
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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