I'm a noob, be gentle. I'm trying to compile a program, and it's puking needing aclocal, which I cannot find anywhere on my system.
So... I download automake, which everyone says "contains aclocal". But it doesn't?? Maybe I need to compile it. So I try to compile it. But it needs autoconf. So... I download an build autoconf, all is good. When I go to build automake I get: # ./configure checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... //bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for tex... no checking whether autoconf is installed... yes checking whether autoconf works... yes checking whether autoconf is recent enough... yes checking whether ln works... yes checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... //bin/grep checking for egrep... //bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... //bin/grep -F configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Automake/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Automake/tests/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating lib/am/Makefile config.status: creating m4/Makefile config.status: creating tests/Makefile config.status: creating tests/defs config.status: creating tests/aclocal-1.10 config.status: creating tests/automake-1.10 # make cd . && perllibdir=/usr/local/automake-1.10"/lib:./lib" /usr/local/automake-1.10/aclocal --acdir=m4 -I m4 /bin/sh: /usr/local/automake-1.10/aclocal: No such file or directory make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127 # It seems I have a chicken/egg problem. Clearly I'm missing something. Any help? Chris
