On 19 Feb 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> >> Allan Rae writes:
>
> AR> On 18 Feb 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> >> >> Richard E Hawkins Esq writes:
> REHE> sed: can't read ./Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> >> Hmm, are you missing the Makefile.in in lib/relyx/ ?
> >>
> >> If so you need to to a cvs checkout.
> >>
> >> Lgb
>
> AR> I tried with a clean checkout and the problem seems to be that
> AR> we have to change to lib/reLyX/ and run automake and autoconf by
> AR> hand before it will compile -- since there is no Makefile there.
>
> AR> I actually get complaints during ./configure that there is no
> AR> configure present in lib/reLyX (since autoconf was never run
> AR> there by hand) but the messages zoom by and are easy to miss.
>
> AR> Can we get configure to run automake and autoconf in lib/reLyX
> AR> if it can't find a configure there?
>
> AR> cd lib/reLyX if [ ! -x configure ]; then ... fi ./configure ...
>
> Yes, we can do something similar to that, but we should also only do
> this if there is a woking automake/autoconf
Of course.
> When doing this manually were you able to compile 1.1?
>
> Lgb
Yes. There were no longer any complaints about missing Makefile or
configure in lib/reLyX. I didn't try an install (its a devel version
after all) but distclean and maintainer-clean also worked okay.
Allan. (ARRae)
