Problems with automake [CLOSED]

By rudeman (User), on Sat Jun 25 08:50:28 2005: Problems with automake [CLOSED].

I use Slackware 10.1 with automake 1.9.4.
When I trie to use make it comes an error: WARNING: `automake-1.8' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your
system. You might have modified some files without having the
proper tools for further handling them. Check the `README' file,
it often tells you about the needed prerequirements forinstalling
this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
some other package would contain this missing `automake-1.8' program.
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1

Help!

By syfou (Core Developer & Desklet Author), on Tue Jun 28 18:01:56 2005.

This is weird - I setup two weeks ago adesklets 0.4.10 on a stock slackware 10.1 system without a hitch... Normally, you do not need automake at all unless you change some autotools files from the archive. On slackware, you can easily make sure all the files' dates are OK by forcing the timestamp to some specific time by doing, from the base directory of the archive, someting like:

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find . -exec touch -r README \{\} ';'

If this doesn't work, you should probably be able to work around this issue by setting the WANT_AUTOMAKE environment variable right. In bash:

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export WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.8

Or, if you are really stuck, I know an italian slackware community site (slacky.it), that provides precompiled binaries for x86 machines. Yours,

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By rudeman (User), on Sat Jun 25 08:50:28 2005: Problems with automake [CLOSED].

By syfou (Core Developer & Desklet Author), on Tue Jun 28 18:01:56 2005.

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