Hi, Just a quick mail to mention that I cannot generate a new configure script using autoconf or autoreconf. I had edited the configure.ac and thought ... "oh, that's my fault", but then I tried it on R-patched and R-3.4.1 without touching configure.ac and had the same problems.
The "building R packages" documentation seems to suggest that "autoconf" should take care of it, but I must be missing something as I expect it to be a common task. I also tried explicit autohell (yes, I know) commands 1) autoreconf --force -v completes but invoking configure (with no options) gives checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu loading site script './config.site' loading build-specific script './config.site' ./configure: line 2982: syntax error near unexpected token `blas' ./configure: line 2982: ` withval=$with_blas; R_ARG_USE(blas)' OK.. there's a recipe that oen can use, starting with: libtoolize --force but you get: A sequence typical found out there, starting withlibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `tools'. libtoolize: linking file `tools/ltmain.sh' libtoolize: You should add the contents of the following files to `aclocal.m4': libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4' libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. then: aclocal autoheader automake --force-missing --add-missing first two go OK, but the third gives configure.ac: no proper invocation of was found. configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal). automake: no `Makefile.am' found for any configure output then the following runs OK autoconf but running configure gives the same BLAS error. But I'm farily sure one shouldn't run to see what's wrong with BLAS,ratehr it's just the configure options not being read properly. The AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE issue definitely seems important. Is there anything I'm missing? Cheers and thanks in advance! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel