[Xastir] Broken

[Chip G.]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 23:53, Tom Russo wrote:

> If it doesn't have a line like the one above, something went wrong  
> at the "bootstrap.sh" step, specifically the automake step of  
> bootstrap.sh.  Try bootstrap.sh again and carefully note any error  
> messages it spews.

Tried. No error messages.

> If that doesn't fix it, post whatever error messages showed up at  
> the bootstrap.sh phase.

None.

> If there are no error messages, then it's time to dig deeper.   
> Start by looking at your automake version number ("automake -- 
> version").  It should be something like version 1.9 or so.

I was beginning to suspect this with Curt's off-list message which  
told me to look for this one. But he said enough for me to be  
thinking of that. As I think I wrote in an earlier message, automake  
was version 1.6. I finked up to version 1.9 and was able to get what  
we should see in the Makefile.in (the CPPFLAGS line which was  
previously absent). Oddly enough, when I did this I got more errors.  
So I also fixed my CVS problem by deleting everything and starting  
from scratch (including commenting out my entire cvsrc file which  
somehow seemed to be munging things up, or at least it suddenly  
stopped hanging midway through when I commented out everything). I  
didn't save the errors, because everything is working now, but the  
bootstrap and make process did have a lot of errors/warnings. More  
than I recall seeing before. But as I said it compiled. When I have  
another day off I will try again and see if I can get more details.

The really strange thing about this whole episode is how it happened.  
Everything was working. Then suddenly it wasn't. The only thing I can  
think of which might have happened in the interim is that I did some  
updates with Fink. This means that either fink downgraded automake or  
else it updated autoconf. I don't have any records about which  
versions were in place before hand, but I know that things were  
working. So the question is how it happened and how to prevent it  
from happening in the future.


73,
--de Chip (N1MIE) FN41bn