Re: Downloading and compiling projects

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com>]

I face the same problem of Ossama. These are the error messages I got upon bootstrpping


[munzir at localhost qtquran]$ make -f Makefile.dist
This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
This will be deleted before making the distribution

*** Creating acinclude.m4
!!! If you get recursion errors from autoconf, it is advisable to set the
    environment variable M4 to something including "--nesting-limit=500"
*** Creating aclocal.m4
*** Creating configure
configure.in:63: error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest
autoconf/status.m4:844: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.in:63: the top level
autom4te: /usr//bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
[munzir at localhost qtquran]$ m4 --version
GNU m4 1.4

> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 14:02, Ossama Khayaat wrote:
> > Assalamou Alaikom,
> > I really need help in the following issues.
> > So far, I tried so many times to download the test
> > the source from the projects that we have like
> > katoob, libquran, akka.
> > I really feel i'm either stupid, or miss something!
> > As far as I know, when I download the source, I
> > will find the configure file so i can:
> >=20
> > # ./configure
> > # make
> > # make install
> >=20
> > Well, I find only configure.in and when I try to run
> > it, it says permissions denied. So, I suppose it's a
> > permissions problem and use:
> >=20
>
> You have to bootstrap the source first.
> Normally this is done with=20
>         make -f Makefile.dist
> or =09
>         make -f Makefile.cvs
> But some projects also provide  a script for that, i.e.
> ./bootstrap
> or=20
> ./autogen.sh
>
>
>
> Anas

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Munzir Taha,
New Horizons Computer Learning Centers,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia