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lily
lily

Reputation: 83

automake --add-missing: error: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found

I'm using autotools to compile my source codes, 

    $:~/Temp/cproject$ autoscan
    $:~/Temp/cproject$ ls
    autoscan.log  configure.scan  main.cpp
    $:~/Temp/cproject$ mv configure.scan configure.ac
    $:~/Temp/cproject$ aclocal
    $:~/Temp/cproject$ automake --add-missing
    configure.ac: error: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
    configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
    configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
    configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal)
    automake: error: no 'Makefile.am' found for any configure output

the configure.ac file content is as below:

    #                                               -*- Autoconf -*-
    # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.

    AC_PREREQ([2.69])
    AC_INIT([FULL-PACKAGE-NAME], [VERSION], [BUG-REPORT-ADDRESS])
    AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([main.cpp])
    AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])

    # Checks for programs.
    AC_PROG_CXX

    # Checks for libraries.

    # Checks for header files.

    # Checks for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics.

    # Checks for library functions.

    AC_OUTPUT

what is wrong with my procedures? why do I get these errors? thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2233

Answers (1)

Diego Elio Pettenò
Diego Elio Pettenò

Reputation: 3240

You are not using the automake macros, so of course automake is failing. The problem here is that autoscan is buggy and not useful.

I can refer you to my basic tutorial to get a default basic support for autotools, if that's what you're looking for.

Upvotes: 1

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