[Nut-upsdev] Red Hat Enterprise 3 build

[Peter Selinger]

Yes, definitely update automake, and also autoconf, libtool etc. 
Automake 1.6.3 was released on 28-Jul-2002, so it is not current in
any tangible sense. See

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/

It is reasonable for NUT to not try to be backward compatible with old
automake versions, because automake only needs to be run by
developers, not by end users.

-- Peter

Ronald Reed wrote:
> 
> [buildbot at crypt trunk]$ automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3
> Written by Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com>.
>  
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
> NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> 
> I will look into getting a newer automake installed. 1.6.3 is the
> current one for CentOS 3.
> 
> Ron
> 
> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:13, Charles Lepple wrote:
> > On 4/9/07, Ronald Reed <rreed at ops.sgp.arm.gov> wrote:
> > > When I do a make, everything seems to go fine until the drivers
> > > directory:
> > >
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/buildbot/trunk/drivers'
> > > Makefile:1597: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/buildbot/trunk/drivers'
> > > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > >
> > >
> > > Line 1597 is the last line in the Makefile for the drivers directory.
> > 
> > If this is the same problem you mentioned last night, then I think
> > these lines might be the root cause of the "make" error:
> > 
> > $ autoreconf --install
> > libtoolize: `config.guess' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
> > libtoolize: `config.sub' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
> > libtoolize: `ltmain.sh' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
> > configure.in:10: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not
> > `AC_CONFIG_HEADER'
> > drivers/Makefile.am:35: driverexec_PROGRAMS was already defined in
> > condition SOME_DRIVERS_FALSE, which implies condition SOME_DRIVERS_FALSE
> > WITH_SERIAL_TRUE
> > 
> > # construct the list of drivers to build
> >  driverexec_PROGRAMS (User, where = drivers/Makefile.am:35) +=
> >  {
> >    SOME_DRIVERS_TRUE => $(DRIVER_BUILD_LIST)
> >    SOME_DRIVERS_FALSE =>
> >  }
> > 
> > That last part repeats multiple times, once for each driver I believe.
> > and then I get hundreds of the following:
> > 
> > Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at /usr/bin/automake line
> > 8448.
> > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> > /usr/bin/automake line 8449.
> > : warning: automake does not support driverexec_PROGRAMS being defined
> > conditionally
> > 
> > 
> > > Here is a list of the make versions for my machine:
> > >
> > > automake-1.6.3-5
> > > automake15-1.5-7
> > > automake14-1.4p6-6
> > > autoconf-2.57-3
> > > autoconf213-2.13-6
> > 
> > What happens if you type "automake --version"?
> > 
> > You can probably get rid of automake15, automake14 and autoconf213. It
> > might be that automake-1.6 is not new enough.
> > 
> > Peter, any ideas?
> -- 
> Ronald Reed - RHCE, GCUX
> Manager of Computer Operations
> ARM SGP ACRF Site
> (580)388-4053 Ext. 114
> rreed at ops.sgp.arm.gov
>