Hi Bruce,
> My build procedure is to blow away the build tree, copy in the
> repository source files and do the build. It doesn't get any cleaner.
Can you give us a recipe how to reproduce it? In the worst case, you can
do a "make distclean", tar up your source tarball on some site and let us
investigate.
I tried it like this:
- Checked out the sharutils CVS according to the instructions on
http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=sharutils
- Installed autogen 5.9.8
- $ ./bootstrap
This resulted in some messages:
Replacing file lib/inttostr.c (non-gnulib code backed up in
lib/inttostr.c~) !!
Replacing file lib/inttostr.h (non-gnulib code backed up in
lib/inttostr.h~) !!
Replacing file lib/offtostr.c (non-gnulib code backed up in
lib/offtostr.c~) !!
Replacing file lib/xalloc.h (non-gnulib code backed up in lib/xalloc.h~)
!!
Replacing file lib/xgetcwd.c (non-gnulib code backed up in
lib/xgetcwd.c~) !!
Replacing file lib/xgetcwd.h (non-gnulib code backed up in
lib/xgetcwd.h~) !!
Replacing file lib/xmalloc.c (non-gnulib code backed up in
lib/xmalloc.c~) !!
This means that you can probably remove these files from your CVS
repository.
It ended with
autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your configure.ac
file requires the infrastructure from gettext-0.18-pre8
but this version
is older. Please upgrade to gettext-0.18-pre8 or newer.
autopoint: *** Stop.
autoreconf: autopoint failed with exit status: 1
chmod: Zugriff auf „COPYING“ nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht
gefunden
chmod: Zugriff auf „INSTALL“ nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht
gefunden
chmod: Zugriff auf „doc/texinfo.tex“ nicht möglich: Datei oder
Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
This was because I have gettext prereleases installed. I worked around it
by changing
the version number to 0.17 and disabling the corresponding part of
bootstrap.
- $ ./bootstrap
bash: ./bootstrap: Keine Berechtigung
This was because the bootstrap script contains a "chmod ugo-x" command that
has the
effect that you can run 'bootstrap' only once. I worked around it by doing
"chmod a+x bootstrap".
- $ ./bootstrap
This time it got to completion, but gave a number of autoconf related
warnings.
In particular:
$ autoconf
configure.ac:98: warning: gl_FUNC_GLIBC_UNLOCKED_IO was called before
gl_LOCK_EARLY_BODY
m4/lock.m4:29: gl_LOCK_EARLY_BODY is expanded from...
m4/lock.m4:22: gl_LOCK_EARLY is expanded from...
m4/lock.m4:253: gl_LOCK is expanded from...
m4/intl.m4:186: gt_INTL_SUBDIR_CORE is expanded from...
m4/intl.m4:25: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is expanded from...
m4/gettext.m4:57: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
configure.ac:98: the top level
I worked around it by moving the two lines
AM_GNU_GETTEXT
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.17])
between gl_EARLY and gl_INIT.
- Then I could configure and make the package (with builddir = srcdir),
with no error.
- "make check" resulted in 1 failed test:
*** shar-1-27710.sample 2010-02-18 11:13:32.000000000 +0100
--- shar-1-27710.outf 2010-02-18 11:13:32.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 1,5 ****
#!/bin/sh
! # This is a shell archive (produced by GNU GNU sharutils 4.7.1).
# To extract the files from this archive, save it to some FILE, remove
# everything before the `#!/bin/sh' line above, then type `sh FILE'.
#
--- 1,5 ----
#!/bin/sh
! # This is a shell archive (produced by GNU sharutils 4.7.1).
# To extract the files from this archive, save it to some FILE, remove
# everything before the `#!/bin/sh' line above, then type `sh FILE'.
#
FAIL: shar-1
- A VPATH build worked the same way.
In summary, I don't know how to reproduce your problem.
Bruno
