[BuildTools] how to generate configure scripts?

[Matěj Týč]

Thank you for your replies,
so I have installed old automake, autoconf and libtool with the
$HOME/autotools_old prefix.
Then I have found out (by trial and error), that I have to put that
prefix to AUTOTOOLS_DIR.
Then I have put AUTOTOOLS_DIR in front of PATH variable and it was
almost done.
However when running BuildTools/run_autotools, I got the following
error:
running aclocal in ./Cgl
Can't locate Autom4te/C4che.pm in @INC (@INC
contains: /home/bubla/autotools_old/autoconf-2.59/../share/autoconf /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 ... ...

The first include path looked promising, but the autotools_old directory
has this structure:
$ ls autotools_old
bin  include  info  lib  man  pkgs  share

So I have ran mkdir autotools_old/autoconf-2.59 (just to create that
empty directory) and everything went somehow all right (except some
warning about Fortran)

And the question is why did I have to create the autoconf-2.59
directory, is it a bug? (Or maybe did I do more things opposed to the
way how they were meant to be done?)

The configure script ran without errors and make test succeeded, too, so
the result is probably OK.

Regards,
Matěj

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 09:47 +0200, Stefan Vigerske wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if you give no argument to run_autotools, then it should run the
> autotools in every subdirectory (up to a certain depth, I guess) that
> contains a configure.ac file. That is, if you are in a projects base
> directory, e.g., CBC, which has BuildTools, Cbc, Clp, ... as
> subdirectories, and if you then run BuildTools/run_autotools, then it
> should run the autotools in ., Cbc, Clp, ...
> 
> Stefan
> 
> Am 02.05.2010 22:58, schrieb Matěj Týč:
> > Hello,
> > I have made some adjustments of coin.m4 and I would like to test them
> > before boasting with them :-)
> > I got right versions of autotools and I have managed to run the
> > run_autotools script, but it was probably naive to expect it to generate
> > configure script for the parent project and for all dependencies of the
> > parent project (in my case, the parent project is CBC, BuildTools with
> > coin.m4 is a subdir, along with other dependencies of CBC)
> > 
> > Any suggestion on how to do that?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Matej
> > 
> > 
> > 
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