Failure to configure and build Automake is a first for me. This is under FreeBSD 5.0:
% ./configure configure: loading site script /usr/local/share/config.site CC = "/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.3.3" CXX = "/usr/local/bin/c++-3.3.3" CFLAGS = "-O2 -Wall -march=i686 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe" CXXFLAGS = "-O -Wall -march=i686 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe" CPPFLAGS = "-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS = "-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/X11R6/lib" checking build system type... i386-unknown-freebsd5.0 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl checking for tex... no checking whether autoconf is installed... yes checking whether autoconf works... yes checking whether autoconf is recent enough... yes checking whether ln works... yes checking for grep that handles long lines... checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Automake/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Automake/tests/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating lib/am/Makefile config.status: creating m4/Makefile config.status: creating tests/Makefile config.status: creating tests/defs config.status: creating tests/aclocal-1.8 config.status: creating tests/automake-1.8 shaggy:src/gnu/automake-1.8.3% gmake Making all in . doc m4 lib tests cd: no such file or directory: . doc m4 lib tests gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 % gmake --version GNU Make 3.80 Copyright (C) 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. ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen