RE: [ALUG] autoconf problem

On 05-Sep-05 Chris Green wrote:

I'm trying to configure a utility using autoconf, when I run ./configure I get all the usual checking sort of stuff, then at the end:-

checking for XShapeCombineMask in -lXext... no
checking for jpeg_destroy_compress in -ljpeg... no
not updating unwritable cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
sed: can't read confdefs.h: No such file or directory
creating autoconf/Makefile.defines
sed: can't read ./autoconf/Makefile.defines.in: No such file or
directory
creating autoconf/Makefile.common
sed: can't read ./autoconf/Makefile.common.in: No such file or
directory
creating autoconf/Makefile.common.lib
sed: can't read ./autoconf/Makefile.common.lib.in: No such file or
directory
creating Makefile
sed: can't read ./Makefile.in: No such file or directory
creating config.h
cat: ./autoconf/config.h.in: No such file or directory
config.h is unchanged

... but all those errors are nonsense, there is a writable ./config.cache (created earlier by autoconf) and the autoconf directory does exist and has those files in it.

What am I missing?

Just a guess -- has there been a silent "cd" somewhere along the line?

Ted.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 05-Sep-05 Time: 13:48:42 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------