[Gambas-user] Help wanted for aspell installation

[Tobias Boege]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Fernando Cabral wrote:
> Hello
> 
> After downloading gb.aspell I tried to install the package running ./reconf
> as indicated. Nevertheless, it has not worked. Any help much appreciates.
> Error messages follow.
> 
> hostname  ~/Downloads/gambas3-3.9.2/gb.aspell $ ./reconf
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal
> configure.ac:6: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version
> arguments
> /usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:65: GB_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:124: GB_INIT_SHORT is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:163: GB_INIT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:6: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> 

gb.aspell is ancient. The last update to the sourceforge repository was in
2008 if I'm not mistaken. The error above tells you that its configure.ac
file is meanwhile incompatible with your version of the GNU autotools.
You can fix that by yourself by looking at the configure.ac's of components
inside the Gambas source tree and making gb.aspell's look like them.
Note that this error happens at the "reconf" stage. After that are still
the "configure" and "make" stages where less trivial errors could pop up.

Regards,
Tobi

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