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GPP, a generic preprocessor
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automake fails: config.h.in missing #31

Closed umeding closed 5 years ago

umeding commented 5 years ago

When building from scratch I get the following error:

$ automake -a configure.ac:12: installing './compile' configure.ac:7: installing './install-sh' configure.ac:7: installing './missing' Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL' configure.ac:9: error: required file 'config.h.in' not found src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'

When line 9 is commented out, everything works fine from there on out: gpp compiles fine, and runs fine.

logological commented 5 years ago

That is not how you are supposed to build an Autotools project from scratch.

If all you are interested in is building from source, then download the source release and follow the instructions in the INSTALL file. (For most Unix-like systems, this will be some variant of the the standard ./configure && make && sudo make install invocation.) At no time will you ever need to run automake.

If you want to actually do development work and need to mess around with the Autotools configuration, then you should clone the source repository and run the usual Autotools toolchain. This will probably be some variant of aclocal && autoheader && automake --add-missing && autoconf followed by the build instructions mentioned above.