From: Moses DeJong <dejong@cs.umn.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:00:24 -0600

Re: I can not configure gii, please help!

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Jeff Anderson wrote:

> Moses DeJong wrote:
> > 
> > I got the latest ggi code from the CVS and I installed automake 1.4,
> > libtool 1.2, and autoconf 1.13.
> > 
> > Then I ran this in libgii.
> > 
> > aclocal ; autoheader ; automake ; autoconf
> > 
> > aclocal: configure.in: 132: macro `AM_SYS_SYMBOL_UNDERSCORE' not found in library
> > configure.in:126: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> > configure.in:126: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> > 
> > ./configure
> > 
> > creating cache ./config.cache
> > ../../lib/libgii/configure: syntax error at line 564: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' unexpected
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong? Is this a ggi problem or is something wrong
> > with my tools install? I think the tools are installed correctly
> > because I have used them to configure other projects but I have
> > not way to be sure.
> > 
> > Mo DeJong
> > dejong at cs.umn.edu
> Try libtool 1.2d to compile libgii. You can obtain it by ftp from
> alpha.gnu.org in /pub/gnu
> 
> Jeff Anderson
> 
> jbandersnocrap@mines.edu
> remove nocrap from above for mail

Cool, that fixed it! It seems like it might be a good idea to put
a test in the autogen.sh file to check the versions of autoconf,
automake, and libtool so that this kind of thing does not happen
to other people.

later
Mo DeJong
dejong at cs.umn.edu