Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> writes: > Please avoid cross posting across mailing lists. > > Krishnan Rajiyah <kraji...@gmail.com> writes: > >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Krishnan Rajiyah <kraji...@gmail.com> >> Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:40 AM >> Subject: installation of automake, autoconf, m4 error >> To: <g...@gnu.org>, <bug...@gnu.org> >> >> Hello GNU, >> >> I have been trying to install automake, autoconf, and m4 on my >> NetBSD-4.0.1-x68k system. As I understand from your website, >> automake requires autoconf which requires m4 which requires perl. I >> havent >> installed perl yet, because I am getting errors saying that it cant make >> built-in (still trying to find a way around this). >> >> However, the problem I had with m4 make was not with perl, it said >> that automake-1.14 was missing from the system. This does not make >> sense since that would mean that there would be a cycle in the >> dependency tree. >> >> I am trying to install the latest version of autoconf (2012 release), the >> latest version of m4 (2013 release), and the second latest verison of >> automake (2013 release). >> >> Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? Is your software even >> compatible with a NetBSD-4.0.1-x68k system? >> >> Thanks, >> Krishnan Rajiyah > > Since in any case this is not related to an automake bug. I closing > this issue.
I may have been too quick in my conclusion that this is not an automake bug. This may be related to bug#20831 [1] Can you confirm that you were actually building from a tarball ? If yes then I will reopen this bug and merge it with bug#20831. Are you able to reproduce this issue with the latest versions of Autoconf, Automake, and m4 ? Thanks. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37 [1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20831
