[emboss-dev] CVS checkout generates broken configure script...

[James Abbott]

Hi Alan,

That was indeed the problem - pkgconfig was installed, but my
autoconf/automake/libtool installations are in a non-standard location
so as not to interfere with the OS packaged versions. These use a
different share/aclocal directory, which did not contain pgk.m4....

Many thanks,
James
 
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:45:55PM +0000, ajb at ebi.ac.uk wrote:
> Hello James,
> 
> There is currently a dependency on pkgconfig in CVS. You are missing
> the pkg.m4 file on your system. In CentOS you can probably get it by
> installing the pkgconfig RPM (which I can see exists for CentOS
> using a google search).
> 
> I'll have a look at this after I return from holiday in the new year.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to build a clean CVS checkout of the emboss code, but the
> > configure script generated by autoconf contains a syntax error:
> >
> > checking for HPDF_New in -lhpdf... yes
> > PDF support found
> > checking whether to look for gsoap support... no
> > checking whether to look for axis2c support... ./configure: line 13496:
> > syntax error near unexpected token `AXIS2C,axis2c,'
> > ./configure: line 13496: `    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(AXIS2C,axis2c,'
> >
> >
> > The relevent section of configure looks like:
> >
> > ======================================================================
> > if test "x$with_axis2c" != xno; then :
> >
> >     { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5
> > $as_echo "yes" >&6; }
> >     if test "x$with_axis2c" != "xyes" ; then
> >         ALT_HOME=$with_axis2c
> >         if test ! -d "${ALT_HOME}" ; then
> >           as_fn_error $? "No such axis2c directory (${ALT_HOME})"
> > "$LINENO" 5
> >         fi
> >          export
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$ALT_HOME/lib/pkgconfig"
> >     else
> >         ALT_HOME="/usr"
> >     fi
> >
> >     PKG_CHECK_MODULES(AXIS2C,axis2c,
> >
> >         AXIS2C_CPPFLAGS=${AXIS2C_CFLAGS}
> >         AXIS2C_LDFLAGS=${AXIS2C_LIBS}
> >     ,
> >
> >         echo pkg-config axis2c detection failed
> >     )
> >
> > ======================================================================
> >
> > I'm using the following versions on a CentOS5.5 machine:
> >
> > autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
> > ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2
> > automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
> >
> > and after checking out the code ran:
> >
> > autoreconf -fiv
> > ./configure --enable-warnings --disable-shared --enable-debug
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea if the current CVS version is sick, or if this
> > is a problem with my environment/versions etc.?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > James
> > --
> > Dr. James Abbott
> > Bioinformatics Software Developer
> > Imperial College, London
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> >
> 
> 

-- 
Dr. James Abbott
Bioinformatics Software Developer
Imperial College, London