[Gambas-user] gambas autoconf fails

[Tobias Boege]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Joan Luc? Lab?rda wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Being using Fedora 19, i try to install Gambas 3.5.4 from the sources 
> then i need to run autoconf and that fail with these errors :
> 
>     [joanluc at ...3372... main]$ autoconf
>     /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:1187: cannot open `m4/libtool.m4': No such
>     file or directory
>     /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:1188: cannot open `m4/ltdl.m4': No such file
>     or directory
>     /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:1189: cannot open `m4/ltoptions.m4': No such
>     file or directory
>     /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:1190: cannot open `m4/ltsugar.m4': No such
>     file or directory
>     /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:1191: cannot open `m4/ltversion.m4': No such
>     file or directory
>     /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:1192: cannot open `m4/lt~obsolete.m4': No
>     such file or directory
>     autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> 
> It seems these files are not in the tar.bz2 source i just have 
> downloaded. Do you know where i could find them ?
> 

They are in the m4 directory in the project root. However, you shouldn't
need to know that. Just follow the procedure advised in the online docs[0]:

  $ # Go to the project root directory
  $ ./reconf-all && ./configure && make
  $ # Get root, whatever way you do that on Fedora...
  # make install

Regards,
Tobi

[0] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/install

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