[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 689, Issue 1

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 04:38:19PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> Please look at the error messages that bootstrap is emitting:  It's saying
> that you ahve NONE of the tools it needs to operate.  It is unfortunate that
> bootstrap emits "Bootstrap complete" irrespective of whether it works or not,
> but in this case, it is not working at all, resulting in no configure
> script being produced.

As of just now, bootstrap will abort completely if any of its steps fails,
instead of blindly going from step to step ignoring errors and reporting
"Bootstrap complete" at the end despite having done nothing.

> Please install the automake and autoconf packages, which should fix this 
> issue and allow bootstrap to produce configure.

Are we missing instructions to install autotools (autoconf & automake) 
somewhere?  I've looked at some of the system-specific installation notes 
pages on the wiki and they do seem to say "install automake and autoconf", 
but perhaps it's too hidden?  We have too many different places where users 
might go to look for installation instructions, and it is impossible to 
keep them all up to date --- the wiki contains a huge number of outdated
system-specific install instructions, and a small number of others that 
are carefully kept current.  Which set of instructions are you following?

> On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 05:33:02PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kilo5dat at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 4:58 PM Dominick Spina <domwrx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Lee,
> > >
> > > I have started a fresh install in my home directory without using sudo
> > > privileges as you recommended. I deleted the files from the previous
> > > install in the usr/local/bin directory.
> > >
> > > I am still getting the same problem with ../configure. I am not able to
> > > make it to the sudo make install step.
> > >
> > > I did try running ./update-xastir and received this output:
> > >
> > > dominick at dominick-AOA150:~/Xastir$ ./update-xastir
> > >
> > > Sun Jan  5 17:47:17 EST 2020
> > >
> > > Already up to date.
> > >
> > >
> > > Sun Jan  5 17:47:18 EST 2020
> > >
> > >     6) Removing autom4te.cache directory...
> > >
> > >     5) Running aclocal...
> > >
> > > ./bootstrap.sh: 15: ./bootstrap.sh: aclocal: not found
> > >
> > >     4) Running autoheader...
> > >
> > > ./bootstrap.sh: 18: ./bootstrap.sh: autoheader: not found
> > >
> > >     3) Running autoconf...
> > >
> > > ./bootstrap.sh: 21: ./bootstrap.sh: autoconf: not found
> > >
> > >     2) Running automake...
> > >
> > > ./bootstrap.sh: 25: ./bootstrap.sh: automake: not found
> > >
> > >     1) Generating derived language files.....
> > >
> > > Bootstrap complete.
> > >
> > >
> > > After running bootstrap.sh, a configure script file should end up in your
> > Xastir directory. I can't explain why it's not there.
> > 
> > If all else fails you could download and run the build script that's shown
> > on the page with the instructions. It is up to date through version 18.04.
> > However If the bootstrap script is not resulting in the creation of the
> > configure script then the build script will bomb at the same place you are
> > with your manual effort.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Lee K5DAT
> > _______________________________________________
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> 
> -- 
> Tom Russo    KM5VY
> Tijeras, NM  
> 
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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