Comments on: Autotools Bribe With Beer http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/ Who needs facts when you have anecdotal evidence? Fri, 18 May 2012 02:28:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Adam Williamson http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-15791 Adam Williamson Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:08:39 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-15791 Note for anyone now attempting to use autoconf / automake on Conduit 0.3.4, to save them the day of headscratching I had: unless you're using exactly automake 1.9.6, you need to run aclocal. However, now Conduit ships its own aw35um h4x0r3d .m4 files, this will break everything. You should run: ACLOCAL="aclocal -I ./m4" autoreconf and it'll work. John, do you really need to h4x0r the .m4 files? :\ Note for anyone now attempting to use autoconf / automake on Conduit 0.3.4, to save them the day of headscratching I had: unless you’re using exactly automake 1.9.6, you need to run aclocal. However, now Conduit ships its own aw35um h4×0r3d .m4 files, this will break everything. You should run:

ACLOCAL=”aclocal -I ./m4″ autoreconf

and it’ll work. John, do you really need to h4×0r the .m4 files? :\

]]> By: john.stowers http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10880 john.stowers Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:51:25 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10880 Thaks a lot everyone!. Based on patches from Jonny Lamb, Rodney Dawes, and from suggestions in this post (AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, “-I m4″) the -I m4 stuff, and requiring a specific autotools version, conduit autotools are a lot less busted. Thaks a lot everyone!.

Based on patches from Jonny Lamb, Rodney Dawes, and from suggestions in this post (AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, “-I m4″) the -I m4 stuff, and requiring a specific autotools version, conduit autotools are a lot less busted.

]]> By: muntyan http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10871 muntyan Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:46:58 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10871 AM_PATH_PYTHON is automake-1.x or later, your autogen.sh was running automake-1.4, so it broke. No idea what minimal "x" is, 1.9 is good enough for anything unless you are using autoconf-2.60 (another funny thing). You have to specify automake version in some way, in configure.ac or by explicitly running automake-1.9, aclocal-1.9, etc. automake is neither backward nor forward compatible, so you have to deal with it. Or do nothing and see bugs like this. Or use something better, some people say it's an option. AM_PATH_PYTHON is automake-1.x or later, your autogen.sh was running automake-1.4, so it broke. No idea what minimal “x” is, 1.9 is good enough for anything unless you are using autoconf-2.60 (another funny thing). You have to specify automake version in some way, in configure.ac or by explicitly running automake-1.9, aclocal-1.9, etc. automake is neither backward nor forward compatible, so you have to deal with it. Or do nothing and see bugs like this. Or use something better, some people say it’s an option.

]]> By: Lieven http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10865 Lieven Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:41:51 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10865 autotools is a broken fix around the big design mistake that gnu=-make is anyway. autotools is a broken fix around the big design mistake that gnu=-make is anyway.

]]> By: Jeff Bailey http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10859 Jeff Bailey Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:18:11 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10859 I love the Autotools, and would cheerfully do a tutorial for you once I arrive back from travelling in mid-September. If you're interested, drop me an email jbailey@raspberryginger.com. No cash required. =) I love the Autotools, and would cheerfully do a tutorial for you once I arrive back from travelling in mid-September. If you’re interested, drop me an email jbailey@raspberryginger.com. No cash required. =)

]]> By: Christian Juner http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10854 Christian Juner Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:35:15 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10854 Conduit's <a href="http://www.conduit-project.org/browser/trunk/m4/python.m4?rev=276" rel="nofollow">python.m4</a> is missing AM_PATH_PYTHON. You could just include /usr/share/aclocal-1.10/python.m4 from the automake package in Ubuntu. Conduit’s python.m4 is missing AM_PATH_PYTHON. You could just include /usr/share/aclocal-1.10/python.m4 from the automake package in Ubuntu.

]]> By: Kaeso http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10852 Kaeso Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:13:41 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10852 Do you have a bug report or a common case so that it will be easier to track the failure? It builds fine on my debian machine too. Do you have a bug report or a common case so that it will be easier to track the failure? It builds fine on my debian machine too.

]]> By: Tom Parker http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10850 Tom Parker Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:01:29 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10850 Personally, I'd dump autoconf for python use. It's far too locked to the notion of a c compiler being the primary use, and things like python being addons. The AM_PATH_PYTHON is supplied on Ubuntu by the automake* packages, and that should be being provided by your already using the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro with version 1.9. Not sure why that's screwing up, but what you can do to work around this is to copy your system's python.m4 (probably /usr/share/aclocal-1.9/python.m4) into the m4 folder. Oh, and adding 'AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, "-I m4")' (without the ') somewhere below the initial block of stuff should help fix various annoying maintainer mode related issues i.e. when configure gets auto-rebuilt due to a change in configure.ac. I'm not sure why you need any of the PKG_CHECK_MODULES stuff, given the lack of C code, but you might want to change the dbus check to something that looks for python-dbus instead, as right now it's looking for the dbus C headers... Also, what needs DBUS_SERVICES_DIR? That's everything I can think of offhand. Personally, I’d dump autoconf for python use. It’s far too locked to the notion of a c compiler being the primary use, and things like python being addons.

The AM_PATH_PYTHON is supplied on Ubuntu by the automake* packages, and that should be being provided by your already using the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro with version 1.9. Not sure why that’s screwing up, but what you can do to work around this is to copy your system’s python.m4 (probably /usr/share/aclocal-1.9/python.m4) into the m4 folder.

Oh, and adding ‘AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, “-I m4″)’ (without the ‘) somewhere below the initial block of stuff should help fix various annoying maintainer mode related issues i.e. when configure gets auto-rebuilt due to a change in configure.ac.

I’m not sure why you need any of the PKG_CHECK_MODULES stuff, given the lack of C code, but you might want to change the dbus check to something that looks for python-dbus instead, as right now it’s looking for the dbus C headers… Also, what needs DBUS_SERVICES_DIR?

That’s everything I can think of offhand.

]]> By: iain http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10849 iain Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:54:46 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10849 Add the -I ./m4 to the aclocal call. -I tells it to look in the supplied directory for the m4 files Add the -I ./m4 to the aclocal call. -I tells it to look in the supplied directory for the m4 files

]]> By: Simon http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10848 Simon Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:44:40 +0000 http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/08/20/autotools-bribe-with-beer/#comment-10848 As a suggestion for the short term build problem, I wonder if using a later version of autotools would help? Conduit seems to require autotools v1.4 at the moment. However, under Ubuntu Feisty the automake1.7, automake1.8 and automake1.9 packages all include a file called python.m4 whereas automake1.4 doesn't. I see you've included a python.m4 file in conduit/m4 but I don't know how to tell aclocal to look at that directory to find it. As a suggestion for the short term build problem, I wonder if using a later version of autotools would help? Conduit seems to require autotools v1.4 at the moment. However, under Ubuntu Feisty the automake1.7, automake1.8 and automake1.9 packages all include a file called python.m4 whereas automake1.4 doesn’t. I see you’ve included a python.m4 file in conduit/m4 but I don’t know how to tell aclocal to look at that directory to find it.

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