Re: dpkg-1.4.0.20 problem

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.net> writes:
> cicero# uname -a                                             /usr/src/debian/base/dpkg-1.4.0.20
> OSF1 cicero V4.0 564 alpha alpha
> cicero# make -f debian/rules                                 /usr/src/debian/base/dpkg-1.4.0.20
> test -f include/dpkg.h.in
> rm -f config.status
> aclocal -I ./automake
> autoheader
> m4: autoheader.m4: No such file or directory
> NONE:0: m4: ERROR: EOF in string
> autoconf
> m4: autoconf.m4: No such file or directory
> NONE:0: m4: ERROR: EOF in string
> make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 2
> 
> Why is there no auto{header,conf}.m4 included?  This is straight out of
> caldera's mirror site, untar'd and made.  I didn't have this problem with
> 1.4.0.8.

That looks like you have a broken autoconf installation.
`auto{header,conf}.m4' are `autoconf' internal files, and should be in
$prefix/share/.

- Hari
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