Bug#309219: NullPointerException in gnu.classpath.tools.gjdoc.RootDocImpl.build (RootDocImpl.java:227)

[Michael Koch]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:50:26PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On 20050518T142623+0200, Julian Scheid wrote:
> > Gjdoc can be fetched from CVS using:
> > CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/classpath 
> > co gjdoc
> > 
> > Standard build procedure applies:
> > ./configure && make && make install
> 
> After running autoconf twice (the second time getting no error
> messages), I end up with
> 
> $ ./configure --disable-native --prefix=/tmp/gjdoc-cvs
> ./configure: line 1246: syntax error near unexpected token `tar-ustar'
> ./configure: line 1246: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tar-ustar)'
> 
> Automake spews a lot of error messages and seems not helpful.
> 
> I do have all packages that the gjdoc Debian package requires to build
> (except the Debian-specific cdbs) installed.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't have time and energy to further try sort this
> build problem out on my own.

Looks like your automake is too old. Which version did you used?


Michael
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