| help2man requires perl (which I have), but also requires the POSIX.pm
| module, which does not seem to be available.
OK, thanks, this will have to be tested.
| checking for working help2man... missing
Huh? We have a communication problem here, I consider a success that
help2man is considered not to work, so there is no failure here.
| Updating man page autoconf.1
| WARNING: `help2man' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your
| system. You might have modified some files without having the
| proper tools for further handling them. Check the `README' file,
| it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing
| this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
| some other package would contain this missing `help2man' program.
| make[1]: *** [autoconf.1] Error 1
Hm, is missing supposed to exit 1? I think not, or at least it needs
to be changed for this case.
| 4. ./semantics.m4:21 --- - Mon Mar 20 20:22:21 2000
| +++ stdout Mon Mar 20 20:22:20 2000
| @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
| #define HAVE_DECL_NO 0
| -#define HAVE_DECL_YES 1
| +#define HAVE_DECL_YES 0
| FAILED near `semantics.m4:21'
I don't understand why there is some output here. There should not
be. (I'm not talking of the failure, I mean, the failure should not be
verbose).
| 65. ./macros.m4:53 --- expout Mon Mar 20 21:39:42 2000
| +++ stdout Mon Mar 20 21:40:20 2000
| @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
| mandir='${prefix}/man'
| no_create=
| no_recursion=
| +no_x=yes
| nonopt=NONE
| oldincludedir=/usr/include
| prefix=NONE
Oh, didn't know, thanks!
| creating cache ./config.cache
| checking whether yes is declared... no
| checking whether no is declared... no
| updating cache ./config.cache
| creating ./config.status
| creating config.h
| --- config.log
| This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
| running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
|
| It was created by configure version 2.14a, executed with
| > ./configure
|
| configure:543: checking whether yes is declared
| configure:561: cc -c conftest.c 1>&5
| ./configure: cc: command not found
This is a known problem with the test suite, please run it again with
make check CC=gcc (or whatever the name of your compiler).
| configure.in:131: warning: AC_C_CONST was called before AC_PROG_CC_STDC
| configure.in:133: warning: AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV is obsolete; replace it with
| AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct stat.st_rdev))
| Please note that it will define `HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_RDEV',
| and not `HAVE_ST_RDEV'.
| configure.in:139: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
| configure.in:608: warning: The macro `AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS' is obsolete.
| You should run autoupdate.
| /USR/BIN/autoheader: No template for symbol `GIICONFDIR'
| /USR/BIN/autoheader: No template for symbol `GIICONFFILE'
| /USR/BIN/autoheader: No template for symbol `GIIPATHTAG'
| /USR/BIN/autoheader: No template for symbol `GIITAGLEN'
You said GIICONFDIR etc. were defined in acconfig.h, right? Can you
run
sh -x autoheader 2>log
and send the log please?
| ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
Grmph, this will be reinstalled. Although not documented anywhere, it
seems very common that it is called from foreign packages.
Akim
