[Xastir] Xastir Help (First Time User)

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:30:57PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kf4otn at ericsatcom.net> flavor, containing:
> Yeah...  So I started over.  I deleted all the Cygwin folders and
> started anew.  I don't seem to have any problems with the steps in the
> beginning but I get to the bootstrap and I get:
> 
> Eric Christensen at GXZXG31 ~/src/xastir
> $ ./bootstrap.sh
>     6) Removing autom4te.cache directory...
>     5) Running aclocal...
> ./bootstrap.sh: line 16: aclocal: command not found
>     4) Running autoheader...
> ./bootstrap.sh: line 19: autoheader: command not found
>     3) Running autoconf...
> ./bootstrap.sh: line 22: autoconf: command not found
>     2) Running automake...
> ./bootstrap.sh: line 26: automake: command not found
>     1) Checking for 'mkinstalldirs'... Not Found
>        Attempting to copy it from system directories'
> ***ERROR: Couldn't copy the file***
> Bootstrap complete.
> 
> 
> Not sure what to do now...  Any ideas?

You need to follow all the steps in README.win32.

The error messages you report above show that you do not have the automake 
and autoconf packages installed.  Make sure you have those, and all the 
others listed in step 1c of README.win32 before moving on to the other
steps.  Nothing in the xastir build process will work if you don't first
install all the other cygwin packages listed.

> Curt Mills wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Eric Christensen wrote:
> > 
> >> First off... Thanks to those that responded with instructions on getting
> >> to the README file.  I found it and am currently following the
> >> instructions...
> >>
> >> Here is the next problem I ran into: I downloaded the source code and am
> >> at the point where I run the bootstrap.  Here is what I get:
> >>
> >> Eric Christensen at GXZXG31 ~/src/xastir
> >> $ ./bootstrap.sh
> >>     6) Removing autom4te.cache directory...
> >>     5) Running aclocal...
> >> ./bootstrap.sh: line 16: aclocal: command not found
> > 
> > The first time you installed it you must have tried the binary
> > instal.  Now  you're trying to install from sources, so you need to
> > go back and update your Cygwin installation per the README.win32
> > document for all the things you need in order to have a full
> > development environment.
> > 
> > In other words, you're mixing and matching from two entirely
> > different sorts of installs.

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