Re: Help compiling source package (autoconf) - AM_SANITY_CHECK not found

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:51:45 -0400
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:44 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > I am trying to compile ImageMagick from source (trying to cross compile it
> > actually with mingw, but I have the same problem with native compilation).
> > Configure runs file, but that when I try to do make I get the error:
> > 
> > configuring ImageMagick 6.3.3
> > checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > ./configure: line 2120: AM_SANITY_CHECK: command not found
> > ./configure: line 2122: syntax error near unexpected token
> > `$PACKAGE_NAME,${PACKAGE_VERSION}${PACKAGE_VERSION_ADDENDUM},http://www.imagemagick.org' ./configure:
> > line 2122:
> > `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE_NAME,${PACKAGE_VERSION}${PACKAGE_VERSION_ADDENDUM},http://www.imagemagick.org)'
> > 
> > I found some reference to m4_pattern_allow but nothing on how to use it and
> > couldn't find anything about this on google.
> > 
> > Any ideas on what I'm missing (tried to look at the aptitude package list
> > but nothing seemed relevant).
> 
> You might want to check for a different version of autoconf, automake
> etc...
> 
> You might not have automake installed or maybe one that doesn't have:
>         usr/share/aclocal-1.10/sanity.m4

I checked, I have both usr/share/aclocal-1.10/sanity.m4 and
usr/share/aclocal-1.9/sanity.m4

I looked in the config file and nothing seems to call that or autoconfig
directly

> 
> in it.