Error Generated by autoconf

Alangi Derick alangiderick at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 12:12:15 UTC 2015


I have done the build already. I want to install it in my system. But can i
just run the system from the build not really installing it? If yes, can
you walk me through?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you google that error, you will see that automake is what makes
> Makefile.am into Makefile.in. Autoreconf is a tool that calls autoconf,
> automake and other parts of the buildchain.
>
> You can try to run automake manually. You can also try to autoconf under
> strace (you can install precompiled strace from yum) to see if that's
> invoking automake.
>
> Try to google the errors and read the documentation for GNU autotools if
> you get more errors. autotools are a bit obtuse, but your not the first
> person to get these errors and there are many answers already on the
> internet.
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Alangi Derick <alangiderick at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    autoreconf has worked and then it created the configure script and
>> then now when i run the configure script, then it produces this error when
>> i run the configure script then i see this other error. Here is it:
>>
>> checking for libunwind-ptrace.h... no
>> checking whether to enable stack tracing support using libunwind... no
>> checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
>> configure: creating ./config.status
>> config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'
>>
>> Can you help me with this one?
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you tried just using autoreconf?
>>> https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/autoreconf-Invocation.html
>>>
>>> Justin
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Alangi Derick <alangiderick at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>        I want to install Strace in my system, i am using Linux
>>>> operating system which is debian + wheezy and when i run autoconf
>>>> configure.ac to generate configure script, it gives me an error and
>>>> the conversion fails making me not to be able to install Strace. What can i
>>>> do? This is the error it gives me:
>>>>
>>>> configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>>>>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>>>> m4_pattern_allow.
>>>>       See the Autoconf documentation.
>>>> configure.ac:10: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
>>>> configure.ac:221: error: possibly undefined macro:
>>>> AC_LITTLE_ENDIAN_LONG_LONG
>>>> configure.ac:816: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
>>>>
>>>> What is the meaning of this and how can i solve it?
>>>>
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