can't compile HAL from CVS

[Marco Canini]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 18:52, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 15:24, Marco Canini wrote:
> > Hi list
> > I'm having troubles with autogen.sh
> > It seems an automake or conf issue, but i'm not expert
> > Do i need to run a particular version of automake/conf.
> > I'm using automake 1.4 and autoconf 2.59
> > 
> 
> I'm certainly no expert on autotools either, but I know for a fact that
> automake-1.4 isn't recent enough. On fedora-devel I use automake 1.8 and
> on debian ppc testing/unstable it's automake 1.7.9 - earlier versions
> may or may not work. The autoconf version is 2.59 on both hosts.
> 
I'm using debian sid
and using automake-1.7 (1.7.9) doesn't solve the situation:

processing .
Running libtoolize...
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
`aclocal.m4'.
Running aclocal -I /opt/gnome2/share/aclocal ...
aclocal: configure.in: 17: macro `AM_PATH_PYTHON' not found in library
Running autoheader...
autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.in
Running automake --gnu  ...
configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using
aclocal).
hald/Makefile.am:49: INIT_SCRIPTS_RED_HAT does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
libhal/Makefile.am:8: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
libhal/Makefile.am:8:
libhal/Makefile.am:8: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add
`AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
libhal/Makefile.am:8: to `configure.in' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf'
again.
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
tools/device-manager/Makefile.am: Python sources seen but `PYTHON' is
undefined
tools/device-manager/Makefile.am:
tools/device-manager/Makefile.am: The usual way to define `PYTHON' is to
add `AM_PATH_PYTHON'
tools/device-manager/Makefile.am: to `configure.in' and run `aclocal'
and `autoconf' again.
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
Running autoconf ...
Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/opt/gnome2 ...
./configure: line 1330: syntax error near unexpected token `hal,'
./configure: line 1330: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hal, 0.2.2)'

-- 
Marco Canini <marco.canini at fastwebnet.it>