Error Generated by autoconf

Tue Feb 17 13:19:26 UTC 2015

I saw it. Now please can you just give me a head start on how to work with
it or link i can find tutorials from? I am actually studying the man page
of strace now.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Look for a file called strace in the source directory and try to execute
> it.
> On Feb 17, 2015 7:12 AM, "Alangi Derick" <alangiderick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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