FW: autoreconf

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

simonmar:
> Can any autoconf experts shed any light on this, in the current HEAD:
> 
> On 03 September 2004 12:17, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> 
> > cam-02-unx:~/builds/HEAD$ autoreconf
> > Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
> > /home/simonmar/fp/bin/i386-unknown-linux/autoreconf line 299. Use of
> > uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
> > /home/simonmar/fp/bin/i386-unknown-linux/autoreconf line 299.  
> 
> It doesn't happen for me, and line 299 of autoreconf doesn't contain a
> m// expression so the error message itself is clearly bogus.

Ok.. it doesn't happen if I have automake/aclocal installed. But if I
take them off the system:

 manzano$ autoreconf-2.59
         Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at
                /usr/local/bin/autoreconf-2.59 line 174.
         Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
                /usr/local/bin/autoreconf-2.59 line 174.

You need automake to make the error disappear. Line 174 of autoreconf is:
        $aclocal_supports_force = `$aclocal --help` =~ /--force/;
which is a m// that tries to invoke aclocal, which fails because it isn't
installed on the system. Is there another missing aclocal.m4?

-- Don