README.git says that the following should work, but it fails for me:
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/make.git
cd make
autoreconf -i
I get failures under both Fedora 20 and Ubuntu 14.04 (attached).
Evidently I'm doing something wrong but it's not clear what, and this
makes it hard to proceed.
1098-penguin $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/make.git
Cloning into 'make'...
remote: Counting objects: 13019, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2884/2884), done.
remote: Total 13019 (delta 10074), reused 13019 (delta 10074)
Receiving objects: 100% (13019/13019), 4.15 MiB | 746.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (10074/10074), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
1099-penguin $ cd make
1100-penguin $ autoreconf -i
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file config/config.rpath
Copying file config/codeset.m4
Copying file config/fcntl-o.m4
Copying file config/gettext.m4
Copying file config/glibc2.m4
Copying file config/glibc21.m4
Copying file config/iconv.m4
Copying file config/intdiv0.m4
Copying file config/intl.m4
Copying file config/intldir.m4
Copying file config/intlmacosx.m4
Copying file config/intmax.m4
Copying file config/inttypes-pri.m4
Copying file config/inttypes_h.m4
Copying file config/lcmessage.m4
Copying file config/lib-ld.m4
Copying file config/lib-link.m4
Copying file config/lib-prefix.m4
Copying file config/lock.m4
Copying file config/longlong.m4
Copying file config/nls.m4
Copying file config/po.m4
Copying file config/printf-posix.m4
Copying file config/progtest.m4
Copying file config/size_max.m4
Copying file config/stdint_h.m4
Copying file config/threadlib.m4
Copying file config/uintmax_t.m4
Copying file config/visibility.m4
Copying file config/wchar_t.m4
Copying file config/wint_t.m4
Copying file config/xsize.m4
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Copying file po/Makevars.template
Copying file po/Rules-quot
Copying file po/boldquot.sed
Copying file po/en@boldquot.header
Copying file po/en@quot.header
Copying file po/insert-header.sin
Copying file po/quot.sed
Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
automake: warnings are treated as errors
configure.ac:54: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is deprecated, and its use is discouraged.
configure.ac:54: You should use the Autoconf-provided 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro instead,
configure.ac:54: and use '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in your Makefile.am files.
configure.ac:43: installing 'config/ar-lib'
configure.ac:72: installing 'config/compile'
configure.ac:46: installing 'config/config.guess'
configure.ac:46: installing 'config/config.sub'
configure.ac:30: installing 'config/install-sh'
configure.ac:30: installing 'config/missing'
Makefile.am: installing 'config/depcomp'
doc/Makefile.am:21: installing 'config/mdate-sh'
doc/Makefile.am:21: installing 'config/texinfo.tex'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
505-day $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/make.git
Cloning into 'make'...
remote: Counting objects: 13019, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2884/2884), done.
remote: Total 13019 (delta 10074), reused 13019 (delta 10074)
Receiving objects: 100% (13019/13019), 4.15 MiB | 736.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (10074/10074), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
506-day $ cd make
507-day $ autoreconf -i
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file config/config.rpath
Copying file config/codeset.m4
Copying file config/fcntl-o.m4
Copying file config/gettext.m4
Copying file config/glibc2.m4
Copying file config/glibc21.m4
Copying file config/iconv.m4
Copying file config/intdiv0.m4
Copying file config/intl.m4
Copying file config/intldir.m4
Copying file config/intlmacosx.m4
Copying file config/intmax.m4
Copying file config/inttypes-pri.m4
Copying file config/inttypes_h.m4
Copying file config/lcmessage.m4
Copying file config/lib-ld.m4
Copying file config/lib-link.m4
Copying file config/lib-prefix.m4
Copying file config/lock.m4
Copying file config/longlong.m4
Copying file config/nls.m4
Copying file config/po.m4
Copying file config/printf-posix.m4
Copying file config/progtest.m4
Copying file config/size_max.m4
Copying file config/stdint_h.m4
Copying file config/threadlib.m4
Copying file config/uintmax_t.m4
Copying file config/visibility.m4
Copying file config/wchar_t.m4
Copying file config/wint_t.m4
Copying file config/xsize.m4
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Copying file po/Makevars.template
Copying file po/Rules-quot
Copying file po/boldquot.sed
Copying file po/en@boldquot.header
Copying file po/en@quot.header
Copying file po/insert-header.sin
Copying file po/quot.sed
Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
automake: warnings are treated as errors
configure.ac:54: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is deprecated, and its use is discouraged.
configure.ac:54: You should use the Autoconf-provided 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro instead,
configure.ac:54: and use '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in your Makefile.am files.
configure.ac:43: installing 'config/ar-lib'
configure.ac:33: installing 'config/compile'
configure.ac:46: installing 'config/config.guess'
configure.ac:46: installing 'config/config.sub'
configure.ac:30: installing 'config/install-sh'
configure.ac:30: installing 'config/missing'
Makefile.am: installing 'config/depcomp'
doc/Makefile.am:21: installing 'config/mdate-sh'
doc/Makefile.am:21: installing 'config/texinfo.tex'
w32/Makefile.am:20: warning: source file 'subproc/misc.c' is in a subdirectory,
w32/Makefile.am:20: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
automake: warning: possible forward-incompatibility.
automake: At least a source file is in a subdirectory, but the 'subdir-objects'
automake: automake option hasn't been enabled. For now, the corresponding output
automake: object file(s) will be placed in the top-level directory. However,
automake: this behaviour will change in future Automake versions: they will
automake: unconditionally cause object files to be placed in the same subdirectory
automake: of the corresponding sources.
automake: You are advised to start using 'subdir-objects' option throughout your
automake: project, to avoid future incompatibilities.
w32/Makefile.am:20: warning: source file 'subproc/sub_proc.c' is in a subdirectory,
w32/Makefile.am:20: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
w32/Makefile.am:20: warning: source file 'subproc/w32err.c' is in a subdirectory,
w32/Makefile.am:20: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
w32/Makefile.am:20: warning: source file 'compat/posixfcn.c' is in a subdirectory,
w32/Makefile.am:20: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
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