Fw: building make

[Dylan Cuthbert]

Hello again, I found out on further reading that autoconf generated the
configure script.  Sorry about the confusion but the documentation probably
needs to be a little clearer for non-unix people (of course, I was in a bit
of a rush also)

However, upon running the generated configure I get this error:

configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in config ./config

Any ideas much appreciated.

Regards

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Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert.
http://www.q-games.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <address@hidden>
To: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:38 PM
Subject: building make


>
> Hate to send such a newbie question, but I was trying to obtain the latest
> version of make from the cvs repository - the version which has the
> recursive call macros enabled.
>
> I am trying to build it on a cygwin-i686 system (cygwin is 1.3.10) and the
> INSTALL documentation in the distribution seems out of date as it refers
to
> a "configure" script which isn't there).  The documentation on the web
> simply says I need autoconf and automake and not much else.
>
> I tried running autoconf, it goes away for a second or so then simply
> returns.
> I tried running automake and get:
>
> configure.in: required file `config/install-sh' not found
> configure.in: required file `config/mkinstalldirs' not found
> configure.in: required file `config/missing' not found
> configure.in:28: required file `config/config.guess' not found
> configure.in:28: required file `config/config.sub' not found
> Makefile.am: required file `./README' not found
> configure.in:12: required file `./config.h.in' not found
> configure.in:360: required file `./build.sh.in' not found
> configure.in:35: required file `./ABOUT-NLS' not found
> Makefile.am: required file `config/compile' not found
> Makefile.am:118: automatically discovered file `getloadavg.c' should not
be
> explicitly mentioned
> Makefile.am: required file `config/depcomp' not found
> Makefile.am:29: required file `config/texinfo.tex' not found
>
> I have simple grabbed the various latest make source direct via cvs so I
> don't know why these files are missing.
>
> The reason I need this is because I need the very latest package of
incrTcl
> which appears to be already using recursive macros.  The reason I need
> incrTcl is because the v5.1.1 version of "gdb+insight" requires it and I
> need that particular version in order to debug the dwarf2 file format used
> by the v3.1 and up of gcc.
>
> Its a nasty chain that just gets deeper and deeper :-(
>
> ---------------------------------
> Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert.
> http://www.q-games.com
>