"autoconf not found" when building svn

[Warren Koo Tze Mew]

109Have you tried the amarok-svn script?  It can be found here:
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Amarok-svn
I believe I had the same problem when I first tried to build, but the script
worked out of the box.

-wk

On 12/21/06, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 07:54 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to build amarok from svn but getting "autoconf not found"
> > errors:
> > $ make -f Makefile.cvs
> > This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
> > This will be deleted before making the distribution
> >
> > ./admin/cvs.sh: 651: --version: not found
> > *** AUTOCONF NOT FOUND!.
> > *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer
> > make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> > all of the autoconf tools are in /usr/bin; this is on ubu tu edgy (some
> > pkgs from feisty).  I tried setting the following variables manually in
> > admin/detect-autoconf.pl:
> >
> > AUTOCONF=/usr/bin/autoconf
> > AUTOHEADER=/usr/bin/autoheader
> > AUTOM4TE=/usr/bine/autom4te
> > ACLOCAL=/usr/bin/aclocal
> > WHICH=/usr/bin/which
> >
>
> ok, so fixed it ad-hoc using:
>
> AUTOCONF=/usr/bin/autoconf AUTOHEADER=/usr/bin/autoheader
> AUTOM4TE=/usr/bine/autom4te ACLOCAL=/usr/bin/aclocal
> WHICH=/usr/bin/which make -f Makefile.cvs
> (sorry for the line wraps!)  anyway that worked but i'd be interested to
> know why the tools aren't found in their pretty standard positions.
>
> thanks,
> matt
>
>
>
> > but no go.  Any hints?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > matt
> >
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> University of Toronto
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