[Nexus-developers] NeXus autotools

[Ray Osborn]

On 2/20/04 7:05, "Akeroyd, FA (Freddie)" <F.A.Akeroyd at rl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Jens has submitted back his modifications and all seems to work well as far
> as I can tell.
> 
> I have tagged the previous non-autotools release
> NEXUS_PRE_AUTOTOOLS_20040120
> 
> and will now delete the automatically generated files (*.in etc) from the
> CVS repository to avoid
> 
> any confusion 
> 

I assume that I now have to type autoconf to generate the configure script.
When I do that, I get

configure.ac:37: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:39: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
configure.ac:42: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure.ac:68: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_C_OPTION
configure.ac:163: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL

This is running the default Mac OS X autoconf in /usr/bin and I seem to be
running the following versions (I can't get the libtool command to give me a
version number):

autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3

"autoconf" does generate a configure script, but it fails with

$ ./configure --with-hdf4=/sw --with-hdf5=/sw
../configure: line 1305: syntax error near unexpected token `1.6'
../configure: line 1305: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.6)'

Do I need a later version of autoconf, because it might be a problem?  A
later version is not available under Fink.

Regards,
Ray
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