"autoconf not found" when building svn

[Matt Price]

On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 12:34 -0500, Warren Koo Tze Mew wrote:
> 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.
> 
thanks, I did try this but it failed as well.  I do have it working now,
though, but only by the hack of declaring values for all the relevant
variables on the command line.

matt

> -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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