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chriszumberge
chriszumberge

Reputation: 863

tar a .tgz but autoconf doesn't configure properly

Using Ubuntu, have the file clhep-2.1.2.4.tgz The instructions say to "unwind the source code tar ball and autoconf and automake will already have been run." it then says to do the standard "/configure --prefix=[path]", "make", "make install"...

So I did

$tar -xvzf clhep-2.1.2.4.tgz

then inside the resultant 2.1.2.4/CLHEP/ is where I should do the ./configure part... however ./configure isn't there, only ./configure.ac which I learned from some research should produce ./configure... Problem is when I run ./configure.ac I get:

./configure.ac: line 11: syntax error near unexpected token '2.59'

./configure.ac: line 11: 'AC_PREREQ(2.59)'

I'm positive I have autoconf2.59 and I've run all my updates and upgrades, but I'm clueless on how to fix this since I didn't write the script and I have no idea why it's a syntax error.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1593

Answers (2)

Nate
Nate

Reputation: 1

It seems that the documentation is a bit old for this package (the website documentation takes you to install infor for version 2.0 only). I think this had to do with a change to Cmake. You should find the correct instructions in INSTALL.autoconf to help generate the configure file, or alternatively, use the cmake install instructions in INSTALL.cmake

Both those files are in the CLHEP directory. Anyway, it seems what was missing was a call to ./bootstrap

Upvotes: 0

Andrejs Cainikovs
Andrejs Cainikovs

Reputation: 28474

Seems like configure script was not produced yet. You can generate it via:

$ autoreconf -fis

Upvotes: 0

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