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apfmelrose

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From: UK

Registered: 2010-05-26

Posts: 2

Motor 3.4.0 build fails missing automake-1.4

I've been trying for days to build Motor, It wants automake and aclocal version 1.4, but I have version 1.11.1

I've trawled the sources looking for the bit that checks for version 1.4, but I'm lost, I'm new to Arch, but not to computers, built my first 33 years ago, with a soldering iron.

Can anyone nudge me in the right direction ? I'm starting to rant to myself and dribble.

My thanks to all that take the time to help.

[tony@REX1 motor]$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: motor 3.4.0-2 i686 (Wed May 26 03:30:52 UTC 2010)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Using cached copy of motor-3.4.0.tar.bz2
  -> Found void-compile.patch in build dir
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    motor-3.4.0.tar.bz2 ... Passed
    void-compile.patch ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> Extracting motor-3.4.0.tar.bz2 with bsdtar
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
patching file kkconsui/src/texteditor.cc
patching file kkstrtext/kkstrtext.cc
patching file src/ui/ncurses/ncursesui.cc
patching file src/ui/ncurses/uitagbrowser.cc
patching file src/ui/ncurses/uivcs.cc
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for non-GNU ld... (cached) /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake-1.4... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found

kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 413

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Re: Motor 3.4.0 build fails missing automake-1.4

It is set at configure:675, but automake are not backward compatible, so is not guaranteed that 1.11 works. I tried to compile but got errors, I think its need some patching.

apfmelrose

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From: UK

Registered: 2010-05-26

Posts: 2

Re: Motor 3.4.0 build fails missing automake-1.4

Thanks Kazuo, I appreciate your input. I'll try copying the RPM derived binaries from another distro.