Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal dependent on aclocal/automake 1.7

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:32:59 +0100
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 03:01:31PM -0600, richard.coe@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I retrieved the latest ethereal 0.10.7 and tried building it, and
> I get the following errors with automake-1.9.2:
> 
> Checking for python.
> processing .
> aclocal -I ./aclocal-fallback
> aclocal:configure.in:13: warning: macro `AM_DISABLE_STATIC' not found in library
> aclocal:configure.in:1195: warning: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
> Can't locate object method "path" via package "Request" at /usr/local/share/autoconf/Autom4te/C4che.pm line 69, <GEN1> line 308.
> aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> 
> I don't get these errors with automake-1.7.7

Please delte autom4te.cache and whatever other directories and cahce files are created.
This should solve your problem. It did this for me, a year ago.

 Ciao
   Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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