Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails

[Marshall McMullen]

Scratch that. While I can now emerge m4 successfully, it still hasn't solved the original problem with not being able to emerge autconf-2.61-r1. It still fails with this error message: 

make: 1254-002 Cannot find a rule to create target ../bin/autom4te from dependencies. 
Stop. 
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. 

Where does autom4te come from ? I had thought this was part of m4, but that doesn't look like it's the case. Has anyone seen this problem ? 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marshall McMullen" <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com> 
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o 
Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 9:08:35 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago 
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails 

I disabled both the patches in the m4 ebuild (one was for BSD the other for Darwin) and ... I _WAS_ able to finally emerge m4 !! 

Thanks very much to Matt for this suggestion, I very much appreciate it. 

AIX does not have any autotools that I know of. I have some older versions installed (compiled by hand) but they didn't seem to be the right versions. In any event, I'm past this problem, so that's good. 

Thanks very much!! 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fabian Groffen" <grobian@g.o> 
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o 
Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 2:14:56 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago 
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails 

On 02-11-2007 04:09:16 +0000, Marshall McMullen wrote: 
> I'm open to any suggestions to get me past this point. I'll look
> into disabling the darwin7 patch from the m4 ebuild and see if
> that helps.
>
> Thanks very much for taking the time to help me out, I sincerely
> appreciate it.

Matt's suggestion makes sense. If I look at the solaris bootstrap, m4 
is bootstrapped before autoconf and friends. What exact error do you 
get? Does AIX come without any autotools at all? 


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Fabian Groffen 
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