Run automake and friends fails

Mark Kirby mark at coris.org.uk
Mon Sep 20 17:48:57 BST 2004


On Monday 20 September 2004 13:29, Frank Schmischke wrote:
> Am Montag, 20. September 2004 11:40 schrieb Mark Kirby:
> > On Sunday 19 September 2004 22:17, Frank Schmischke wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, 19. September 2004 20:50 schrieb Mark Kirby:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've just installed kdevelop 3.1.0 and i cant compile the simple kde
> > > > application.
> > > >
> > > > When i run automake and friends i keep getting
> > > >
> > > > *** YOU'RE USING automake (GNU automake) 1.9.1.
> > > > *** KDE requires automake 1.6
> > > > gmake[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> > > > gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> > > > *** Exited with status: 2 ***
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas how to get around this?
> > >
> > > You have an old version of file admin/cvs.sh. Get a new admin-directory
> > > from current kde release (3.3.0) or modify your admin/cvs.sh.
> > >
> > > Search for a line with:
> > > automake*1.6.* | automake*.1.7* ...
> > >
> > > add there:
> > >  | automake*1.9*
> > >
> > > Frank
> >
> > Thanks that worked.
> >
> > But i don't really want to do this every time i start a new project.
> >
> > I'm running kdevelop on  kde 3.3.0 so why does it generate out of date
> > admin directories?
>
> The contents of admin/ is stored as template in
> {kde}/share/apps/kdevappwizard/template-common/admin.tar.gz
>
> If you will create some new projects, it may be useful to recreate
> admin.tar.gz with newer files (ie. taken from kdexxx-3.3.0 sources)
>
> Frank
>

Thanks for the tip.

It works like a charm.

Thanks for the great advice.

Mark

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