OSX install problems

[David Relson]

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At 07:56 PM 9/17/02, Eric Seppanen wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:43:14PM -0500, Eric Seppanen wrote:
> >        Prerequisite `configure.in' is older than target `config.in'.
> >        Prerequisite `aclocal.m4' is newer than target `config.in'.
> >       Must remake target `config.in'.
> > cd . && /bin/sh /home/eds/bogofilter/bogofilter-0.7.3/missing --run
> > autoheader
> > Child access: user 500 (real 500), group 500 (real 500)
> > Putting child 0x08077a98 (config.in) PID 27012 on the chain.
> > Live child 0x08077a98 (config.in) PID 27012
> > FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.52 or higher is required for this script
> >
> >
> > I think this means that config.in is supposed to be in the tarball.
>
>duh.  config.in _is_ in the tarball.  OK, I don't know what's causing
>this.

Reading the messages, I see that config.in depends on configure.in and 
aclocal.m4.  If config.in is newer than both the others, it has already 
been "made".  If either of the others is newer than config.in, then it is 
necessary to remake config.in.  The messages say that aclocal.m4 is newer 
than config.in.  Assuming this is true, then it is necessary to rebuild 
config.in.  Let me check the bogofilter-0.7.4 directory ...

[relson at osage bogofilter-0.7.3]$ ll -t configure.in config.in aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r--    1 relson   relson      31587 Sep 12 16:32 aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r--    1 relson   relson       3787 Sep 12 16:21 config.in
-rw-r--r--    1 relson   relson       4069 Sep 12 15:48 configure.in

Yep.  aclocal.m4 is newer, so config.in needs to be rebuilt.

Probably the process of building the distribution is a bit wrong.  Looking 
at Makefile, it appears the sequence for building bogofilter-0.7.x.tar.gz is

         configure
         make dist

David


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