From: Raphael Zimmerer <Raphael.Zimmerer@gmx.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:25:23 +0100

Re: Build failure report

Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:

> The most recent (990209) degas snapshot's gii, when being configured, errors with this:
>
> (after running....)
> ./autogen.sh
> aclocal: configure.in: 129: macro 
M_SYS_SYMBOL_UNDERSCORE' not found in
> library
> ./configure
> ./configure: line 562: syntax error near unexpected token
> 
M_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libgii,0.1,-)'
> ./configure: line 562: 
M_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libgii,0.1,-)'
>
> Do I need to upgrade my automake? currently I've got the most recent which
> debian offers...
>
> ii  automake        1.4-1          A tool for generating GNU
> Standards-complian
> ii  libtool         1.2-1          Generic library support script.
> ii  autoconf        2.13-2         automatic configure script builder

You need:
automake 1.4
Autoconf 2.13
libtool 1.2d

If you just have upgraded your autoconf/automake/llibtool stuff, look that there are not
any files of the old stuff on your harddisk! This happened to me!

Raph