Unable to find 'automake'

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Feb 26 02:35:47 PST 2006


On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:17:30AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:23:42PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > > Using FreeBSD 5.4
> > > 
> > > While building 'portmanager', I noticed this error message:
> > > 
> > > Making all in libMG
> > > Making all in src
> > > cd ../.. &&  /bin/sh 
> > > /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager/work/portmanager-0.4.1/missing --run 
> > > automake --gnu  libMG/src/Makefile
> > > automake: not found
> > > WARNING: `automake' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
> > >          you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.
> > >          You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
> > >          Grab them from any GNU archive site.
> > 
> > Verify that your system clock is correct.
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> The system clock is right on. Why would that affect it anyway?

If file timestamps are off then it will think the auto* files are out
of date and need to be regenerated.

Kris

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