Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] The need to run autogen (almost) every day.

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:53:53PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:36:59PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > I suspect at least part of the problem is that, somehow, the Makefile's
> > process of regenerating the configuration file, if you don't have GTK+
> > 2.0 installed, doesn't correctly handle the
> ...
> > stuff, as, instead of expanding the macro call to "AM_PATH_GTK_2_0()"
> > using the fallback version, it just copies the line over *verbatim*,
> > which upsets the shell as it's not expecting a parenthesized call.
> 
> Please test whether the attached patch fixes the problem. I'm too tired
> to commit this right now without further review/testing.

Nope, it didn't help:

	% touch configure.in
	% make
	cd . && aclocal
	cd . && automake --gnu Makefile
	cd . && autoconf
	configure.in:581: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
	/bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
	running /bin/sh ./configure  --no-create --no-recursion
	loading cache ./config.cache
	checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c

		...

	checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
	updating cache ./config.cache
	loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
	checking for object suffix... o

		...

	checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... (cached) no
	creating libtool
	updating cache ./config.cache
	loading cache ./config.cache
	checking for bison... (cached) bison -y

		...

	checking for GNU sed as first sed in PATH... no
	./configure: 2327: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
	make: *** [config.status] Error 2
	% make --version
	GNU Make version 3.77, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
	Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
	        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
	There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
	PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

	Report bugs to <bug-make@xxxxxxx>.
	% sed -n '2326,2345p' configure
	if test "x$enable_gtk2" = "xyes" -a "x$enable_ethereal" = "xyes" ; then
		GTK_OK=two
		AM_PATH_GTK_2_0(2.0.0, CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $GTK_CFLAGS", GTK_OK=no, gthread)
	elif test "x$enable_gtk2" = "xno" -a "x$enable_ethereal" = "xyes" ; then
		GTK_OK=one
		# Check whether --with-gtk-prefix or --without-gtk-prefix was given.
	if test "${with_gtk_prefix+set}" = set; then
	  withval="$with_gtk_prefix"
	  gtk_config_prefix="$withval"
	else
	  gtk_config_prefix=""
	fi

	# Check whether --with-gtk-exec-prefix or --without-gtk-exec-prefix was given.
	if test "${with_gtk_exec_prefix+set}" = set; then
	  withval="$with_gtk_exec_prefix"
	  gtk_config_exec_prefix="$withval"
	else
	  gtk_config_exec_prefix=""
	fi