Hey everyone, I'll fess up as the user Mo was referring to - but he
missed a few key points... like this is happening on RedHat 6.2 not
AIX. Here's the actual sequence of failures:
[jikes@tweedle jikes]$ echo $PATH
/opt/autoconf/bin:/opt/automake/bin:/opt/tcltk/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/jikes/bin
[jikes@tweedle jikes]$ aclocal
[jikes@tweedle jikes]$ autoheader
/opt/autoconf/bin/autoheader: NONE:0:: command not found
autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.in
[jikes@tweedle jikes]$ autoconf
NONE:0: /usr/bin/m4: Cannot open /usr/local/share/autoconf/autoconf.m4f: No
such file or directory
[jikes@tweedle jikes]$ automake
automake: configure.in: required file `src/depcomp' not found
[jikes@tweedle jikes]$
it's interesting to note that the error from autoconf was looking
for a file in the default location, but that I've installed to /opt!
usr/local/share doesn't occur in our configuration files anywhere
that grep can find... perhaps the build process for autoconf isn't
taking the --prefix option into account somewhere?
Both automake and autoconf were built and installed last night
in the following manner:
cvs checkout into an empty directory
./configure --prefix=/opt/auto{conf,make}
make
make install
Any and all suggestions and advice appreciated.
(p.s. the AIX connection is that I need a change to our
configure script in order to compile on AIX, but I do all
the support stuff like cvs, autoconf, automake, etc on
linux and transfer the results in a tarball.)
