Hi Ed, * Ed Hartnett wrote on Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:57:26AM CEST: > > I am trying to install automake and an OSF1 system. I just installed > autoconf, but the automake configure hangs looking for it... *snip* > checking whether autoconf is installed... yes > checking whether autoconf works... > > And there it sits, until I kill it.
Try to debug it: Edit `configure', search for the string whether autoconf works and add set -x before it (and maybe `set +x' some way down) to find out which command hangs. I'd suspect the eval $am_AUTOCONF -o /dev/null conftest.ac but wouldn't have any idea why it should hang. If this is correct, you could try to execute this line manually: create conftest.ac consisting of a line with `AC_INIT', execute autoconf as above with `/bin/sh -x' to see where it hangs. Post whatever you find. Maybe autom4te finds a non-GNU m4? Which autoconf version, by the way? Cheers, Ralf
