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kamagurka

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-02-20

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makepkg doesn't understand version numbers and fails

I'm trying to build boinc from the AUR, and it fails with the following error:

Checking version of 'automake' >= 1.8... failed. (1.10)
Couldn't find a new-enough version of 'automake', please install one!
If you have a newer version, set the environment-variable 'AUTOMAKE' to its path
./PKGBUILD: line 35: ./configure: No such file or directory
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
==> ERROR: Build Failed.  Aborting...

It's looking for a version of automake greater than 1.8, and apparently can't tell that 1.10 is, indeed, suffiecient. I guess it only looks at the first digit.
Anyone know how I can override this?

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tomk

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Re: makepkg doesn't understand version numbers and fails

Firstly, that is not a makepkg error. It comes from the application's own source code, in response to whatever command comes before ./configure - probably ./autogen.sh or something similar. If you want to try fixing it yourself, look at autogen.sh (or whatever it is) and see if you can spot the error. Alternatively, report it to the maintainer and wait for a fix.

kamagurka

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 150

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Re: makepkg doesn't understand version numbers and fails

There's no way of fooling it into thinking automake is the version it wants, is there?
Nothing is ever easy.
EDIT: OK, I did as you said and went into the command right before the line that threw the error, (in this case _autosetup) and replaced 1.8 with 1.10. Ugly hack, but seems to have worked. Thanks!

Last edited by kamagurka (2007-03-19 12:09:07)

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