Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

[penguin.ch]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

looks like AUTOCONF be an empty string, though

Good point, indeed - in addition, from more reading through the script in question, I've received the impression that none of those queries is going to result in more than such an empty string (?).

[jankushka]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

yeah, this script must have been called by something else...
a something where those variables (AUTOMAKE, AUTOCONF, ...) should have been set...
guess we should try and set up a test env for this, uh?
what d'you reckon?

[penguin.ch]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

How about a little guesswork in between:

sudo apt-get install libtool

[lightnb]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

"libtool is already the newest version."

Does this work correctly on everyone else's machine?

[penguin.ch]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

Hmmm ... time for Plan B then, a little work-around (although still no solution, I'm afraid):
In the original script, change the code of check_autotool_versions() as follows, then re-try:

1. Old: AUTOCONF_VERSION=`$AUTOCONF --version | head -n 1`
New: AUTOCONF_VERSION=`autoconf --version | head -n 1`

2. Old: AUTOHEADER_VERSION=`$AUTOHEADER --version | head -n 1`
New: AUTOHEADER_VERSION=`autoheader --version | head -n 1`

2. Old: AUTOMAKE_STRING=`$AUTOMAKE --version | head -n 1`
New: AUTOMAKE_STRING=`automake --version | head -n 1`

[lightnb]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

I've made the recommended changes, and the output error has changed to:

*** YOU'RE USING Autoconf version 2.13.
*** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer
make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Exited with status: 2 ***

but apt-get says: "automake is already the newest version."

[SheeEttin]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

What do "autoconf --version" and "which autoconf" say?

[lightnb]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

What do "autoconf --version" and "which autoconf" say?

gandolf@GlassFish:~$ which autoconf
/usr/bin/autoconf
gandolf@GlassFish:~$ autoconf --version
Autoconf version 2.13
---
Autoconf 2.13 chosen by Debian wrapper script.
For information and tuning advice see autoconf(1).

[SheeEttin]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

Uh-huh. You are indeed using 2.13.

Umm... if "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install autoconf" does nothing, I'm not sure what to say. Maybe try installing the latest autoconf package manually. Deb is here, or all autoconf packages here.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

Autoconf 2.13

Are you aware of the fact that, at least according to Synaptic, for "Feisty" there are two different packages available from the official repositories: autoconf and autoconf213 - the latter one labeled as obsolete ...

[SheeEttin]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

I noticed that too, but unless autoconf213 installs itself to /usr/bin/autoconf, that shouldn't present a problem. It says he has autoconf installed, too (post #3).

[penguin.ch]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

but unless autoconf213 installs itself to /usr/bin/autoconf

It's even worse then that:

ROOT # apt-get install autoconf autoconf2.13
USER # which -a autoconf2. [tab][tab]
autoconf2.13 autoconf2.50
USER # autoconf --version
Autoconf version 2.13

Go shudder, er, figure

[SheeEttin]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

Erm. That's not a good idea.

[lightnb]

Re: Error: Make for KDE C++ project in KDevelop

I ran:

sudo apt-get remove autoconf

and it removed:
automake1.8
automake
autoconf2.13
autoconf

then I ran:

sudo apt-get install autoconf

and

sudo apt-get install automake

This seems to have fixed the error, as the script runs for longer now, but it now gives a different error message:

make: *** No rule to make target `kdesimple'.