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imrehg

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2008-04-10

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automake: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required (???)

Hi,

  I was trying to compile a package from scratch, but run into a problem.
  The package would be the baobab disk space analyser of Gnome, and the svn version of it.

  It has a Makefile.am, containing:

## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in

SUBDIRS =  src data pixmaps help

where all the mentioned subdirectories have their respective Makefile.am properly set up.

  However, when I try to run automake, it stops with the error message:

automake: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

Isn't configure.ac or configure.in needed by autoconf and not automake? The dir does not have those, that's for sure, but I think others' still been able to compile this....

Any suggestions? Tried to reinstall automake (suggested by others for various problems on various other forums) but still the same...
Cheers!