[Aptitude-devel] building: automake failure

[Neal H. Walfield]

Hi,

I'm trying to build aptitude from source on Debian Lenny.  I'm using
subversion revision 4434, the latest.  My first step is to run
autoreconf.  This fails with exit status 1:

  neal at kleiner:~/src/aptitude$ autoreconf 
  acinclude.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of FC_EXPAND_DIR
  acinclude.m4:8:   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  acinclude.m4:8:   or see
  http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
  autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not
  AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
  doc/de/Makefile.am:30: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
  doc/de/Makefile.am:31: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
  doc/de/Makefile.am:32: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
  doc/de/Makefile.am:33: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
  doc/en/Makefile.am:27: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
  doc/fr/Makefile.am:29: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
  autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

I'm using automake debian version 1:1.10.1-3.

Am I doing something wrong?  Do I need to use a specific automake
version?

Thanks,

Neal