Automake Requirements

[Simon Hausmann]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:23:32AM +0100, Ivan Hawkes wrote:
> Is automake 1.5 really a necessity or has someone just forgot that people may 
> already be using v1.6? Any hints as to where I can *correct* this (if it is 
> possible to use v1.6)?
> 
> 
> ivan at hal9000:/data/src/kdevelop > make -f Makefile.cvs
> This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
> This will be deleted before making the distribution
> 
> Can't locate Automake/Struct.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
> /usr/local/share/automake-1.6 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux 
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at 
> /usr/local/bin/automake-1.6 line 39.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/automake-1.6 line 39.
> *** AUTOMAKE NOT FOUND!.
> *** KDE requires automake 1.5
> make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
 
Automake 1.6 should work. Looking at the above messages I'd say that
admin/cvs.sh bails out because automake version detection failed
because your automake installation is broken.


Simon