Build Failure after updating Makefile.am file in gstreamer-1.2.1 package

[Tim Müller]

On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 02:22 -0800, vindi503 wrote:

Hi,

> I am using gstreamer-1.2.1 package, I modified Makefile.am in
> /../../gstreamer-1.2.1/plugins/elements/ path.
> 
> And I run make command, But I get below error
> 
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/home/vinay/Downloads/gstreamer-1.2.1/libs/gst/base'
>  cd ../../.. && /bin/bash /home/vinay/Downloads/gstreamer-1.2.1/missing
> automake-1.14 --gnu libs/gst/base/Makefile
> /home/vinay/Downloads/gstreamer-1.2.1/missing: line 81: automake-1.14:
> command not found
> WARNING: 'automake-1.14' is missing on your system.
>          You should only need it if you modified 'Makefile.am' or
>          'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
>          The 'automake' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
>          It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
>          <http://www.perl.org/>
> make[4]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 127
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/vinay/Downloads/gstreamer-1.2.1/libs/gst/base'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/vinay/Downloads/gstreamer-1.2.1/libs/gst'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vinay/Downloads/gstreamer-1.2.1/libs'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vinay/Downloads/gstreamer-1.2.1'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> Can someone help me on this ?

You need to have the autoconf/make versions the package was created with
installed for this to work automagically like this.

Alternatively, run ./autogen.sh in the top-level directory, which will
re-tool the build system bits based on whatever autoconf/automake
versions you have installed.

Cheers
 -Tim

-- 
Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com