Can't build from cvs sources

2004-10-22 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
I've checked out the head of the cvs trunk and followed the instructions in README.cvs but the autoreconf fails: autoreconf -i -s Makefile.am: required file `./README' not found configure.in:398: required file `build.sh.in' not found autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

Re: make cannot handle prerequisites that contain a colon

2004-10-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Andreas Buening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ab> Paul D. Smith wrote: >> The idea I had involves changing escaped special characters like spaces >> into "impossible" byte values in make's internal string representation. >> That way all of make's current manipulation would continue to wor

Re: make cannot handle prerequisites that contain a colon

2004-10-22 Thread Andreas Buening
Paul D. Smith wrote: > The idea I had involves changing escaped special characters like spaces > into "impossible" byte values in make's internal string representation. > That way all of make's current manipulation would continue to work > as-is: when searching for whitespace to break up words for