On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 12:09 PM Daniel Herring <dherr...@tentpost.com> wrote:
> Hi Billa, > > It sounds like you are trying to build from a source repo instead of a > release tarball. > > Building with automake or autoconf is a multi-step process. Run automake > on a ".am" file to generate a makefile. Run make on the makefile to build > the executable. > > Automake has a special "make dist" rule. The dist rule uses automake on a > host computer to produce a tarball. This dist tarball requires make and a > compiler, but it does not require automake. > With your suggestion, I have successfully installed automake-1.16.2 in riscv target image. finally, I have installed autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.16.2 in the target image. Next, I am trying to install texinfo-6.7 on the target image but it's giving me error Error message: checking Perl configuration value archlibexp... /usr/lib/perl5/5.34.0/riscv64-linux checking Perl configuration value privlibexp... /usr/lib/perl5/5.34.0 checking that generated files are newer than configure... done configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating gnulib/lib/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing po-directories commands config.status: executing libtool commands checking whether we can build Perl extension (XS) modules... cd . && /usr/bin/bash /home/texinfo-6.7/tp/Texinfo/XS/missing automake-1.16 --foreign *configure.ac:14 <http://configure.ac:14>: error: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.16.2,configure.ac:14 <http://configure.ac:14>: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKEconfigure.ac:14 <http://configure.ac:14>: comes from Automake 1.16.1. You should recreateconfigure.ac:14 <http://configure.ac:14>: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again.WARNING: 'automake-1.16' is probably too old. You should only need it if you modified 'Makefile.am' or 'configure.ac <http://configure.ac>' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac <http://configure.ac>'. The 'automake' program is part of the GNU Automake package: <https://www.gnu.org/software/automake <https://www.gnu.org/software/automake>> It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run: <https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf <https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>> <https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/ <https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>> <https://www.perl.org/ <https://www.perl.org/>>make: *** [Makefile:979: Makefile.in] Error 1no fallback module for TestXSunset the TEXINFO_XS and TEXINFO_XS_PARSER environment variables to use the pure Perl modulesBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../../Texinfo/XS/TestXS.pm line 31.Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.* checking whether we can build Perl extension (XS) modules... no checking for prove... prove checking parser tests requirements... no checking Perl Texinfo API texinfo documentation build requirements... yes I have tried installing automake-1.16.1 version with your approach but could not able to install it on target. Please suggest to me what I can do. Thanks Billa > -- Daniel > > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2021, Billa Surendra wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Nov, 2021, 2:28 am Nick Bowler, <nbow...@draconx.ca> wrote: > > > >> On 20/11/2021, Billa Surendra <billa.iitmad...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> I have RISC-V native compiler on target image, but when I am compiling > >>> automake on target image it needs automake on target. This is the main > >>> problem. > >> > >> Automake should not be required to install automake if you are using > >> a released version and have not modified the build system. > >> > > > > Could you please explain more, What is the released version ? . Modified > > build system means ? > > I have created my RISC-V Linux target system on x86, now I am compiling > > automake on target system only with native compiler. > > > >> > >>> In the same way I am trying to install texinfo on target image it > >>> also need automake on target. > >> > >> Likewise, texinfo should also not require automake to install. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Nick > >> > > > > >
