[Openchrome-users] autogen.sh error?

[Peter]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:20:56PM +0100, cfried wrote:
> autogen.sh error?
> Hello all,
> 
> after some internet research I found the openchrome driver which obviously supports my graphic card (P4M890). I am using Xubuntu 7.10. 
> 
> Unfortunately the precompiled Ubuntu-openchrome package is based on an older openchrome version and does not support the graphic card. The via driver from via-arena on the other hand does not support Ubuntu 7.10 (it seems, well I did not compile, too).
> 
> So my only chance is to compile openchrome myself. But already the first step failed:
> 
> autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> 
> produces
> 
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal 
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
> configure.ac:38: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:39: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> 
> Can anyone help with this problem? Thank you in advance.
> 
> Christoph
> 
> 
hi,

looks like you have to install autoconf, automake etc.

try:
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake1.9 libtool

or better read:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome

utfg...

Peter Facka