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From: Rabbe Fogelholm <rabbe@×××××××.se>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:29:20
Message-Id: 472C314C.3000205@bahnhof.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails by Marshall McMullen
1 I think prefix launcher can optionally be installed to a different
2 location. However, it did not work for me:
3 <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1824617&group_id=191940&atid=939398>.
4
5 --Rabbe
6
7
8 Marshall McMullen wrote:
9 > No, I haven't used prefix-launcher. If I read the directions on the
10 > website correctly, it has to be installed to /usr/local is that correct
11 > ? If so, I don't have the ability to do that on my system. I've been
12 > applying patches by hand to get around any obstacles I encounter. Kind
13 > of a pain, but hopefully once I'm past this I won't have to do it again....
14 >
15 > ----- Original Message -----
16 > From: "Michael Haubenwallner" <haubi@g.o>
17 > To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
18 > Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 4:27:56 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
19 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails
20 >
21 > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 20:09 +0000, Marshall McMullen wrote:
22 >> I can't seem to get autoconf-2.61-r1 to emerge on AIX 5.3. It fails as
23 >> follows:
24 >>
25 >> config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands
26 >> Making all in bin
27 >> make: 1254-002 Cannot find a rule to create target ../bin/autom4te
28 >> from dependencies.
29 >> Stop.
30 >> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
31 >>
32 >>
33 >> Is this failure related to m4? Unfortunately I do _NOT_ have m4
34 >> installed yet, as I can't seem to get m4 installed on AIX until I
35 >> first have the entire autoconf and automake chain installed. Anyone
36 >> circumvent this problem?
37 >
38 > Do you use prefix-launcher[1] on aix ?
39 >
40 > It's higly recommended to use it for aix and hpux, as the bootstrap
41 > process used on linux/solaris/mac/freebsd is unlikely to work, because
42 > most of the bootstrap packages need some patching, which is not done by
43 > bootstrap-prefix.sh.
44 >
45 > [1] http://prefix-launcher.wiki.sourceforge.net/
46 > Eventually you want to download prefix-launcher-1.1-fetched.tar.bz2.
47 > But I must admit that it's unlikely to have your ldap problem fixed.
48 >
49 > /haubi/
50 > --
51 > Michael Haubenwallner
52 > Gentoo on a different level
53 >
54 > --
55 > gentoo-alt@g.o mailing list
56 >
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