Richard, It looks to me like automake isn't installed correctly. Automake provides macros like AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to Autoconf, so Autoconf needs to find them.
HTH, Robert Richard Dawe wrote: > > Hello. > > I've been trying to bootstrap a CVS check-out of libtool and I've hit some > problems. The problems occur when I run the "boostrap" script. I'm using the > DJGPP ports of autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.2. > > Firstly, I keep getting the following message: > > configure.ac: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' must be used > automake: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an > automake: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4 > automake: with aclocal and run automake again. > automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified > > So I ran aclocal and re-ran bootstrap. I got the same error message. I also > tried changing the following in configure.ac: > > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME, AC_PACKAGE_VERSION) > > to have no arguments, []-quoted arguments, etc., but that made no difference. > > Has anyone else seen this problem? If not, then it must be a problem with the > DJGPP port of automake 1.7.2. > > Secondly, bootstrap doesn't seem to create any Makefile.in files. The line > that runs automake is: > > eval $AUTOMAKE $AUTOMAKE_FLAGS > > Shouldn't there be a Makefile name after that? Also, shouldn't the script > create Makefile.in in the top-level directory and doc directories? > > Thanks, regards, > > -- > Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ] > > _______________________________________________ > Libtool mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool