On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > This often means that you haven't run autoheader, > so you might try running that, or running autoreconf > (which runs autoheader).
Or is supposed to? Below is an xtrace of Gary's "bootstrap" script that ultimately arrives at: /usr/bin/autoreconf --install but that invocation chokes. I'll see what I can do to get autoreconf to run autoheader. >BS-func_autoreconf> func_show_eval '/usr/bin/autoreconf --install' 'exit $?' [...] >BS-func_show_eval> eval '/usr/bin/autoreconf --install' >>BS-func_show_eval> /usr/bin/autoreconf --install configure.ac:32: installing 'build-aux/compile' configure.ac:11: installing 'build-aux/config.guess' configure.ac:11: installing 'build-aux/config.sub' configure.ac:15: installing 'build-aux/install-sh' configure.ac:15: installing 'build-aux/missing' Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL' Makefile.am: installing './COPYING' using GNU General Public License v3 file Makefile.am: Consider adding the COPYING file to the version control system Makefile.am: for your code, to avoid questions about which license your project uses configure.ac:20: error: required file 'config.h.in' not found doc/Makefile.am:42: installing 'build-aux/texinfo.tex' lib/Makefile.am: installing 'build-aux/depcomp' autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
