can't build

[jgarvin]

After running ./configure I got an error saying I needed aclocal and automake because I had edited Makefile.am, which I hadn't, but I'm guessing the copies of the generated files in the repo are out of date. So then I tried rerunning automake, which complained there was "no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE" and that I should rerun aclocal. So I did and tried automake again. Then I get this:

configure.ac:7: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated.  For                                             more info, see:
configure.ac:7: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
configure.ac:11: error: required file './compile' not found
configure.ac:11:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'

I don't see any file called compile in the checkout. Maybe something that needs to be checked in? I'm not much of an autotools guru.

[jochs]

I was just able to build this using the repo hosted in the Google Code archive, if you want to give that a shot.

hg clone https://code.google.com/p/linux-ftools/
cd linux-ftools
./configure
./make
./make install

[y123456yz]

+1

[y123456yz]

@jgarvin compile error.

[root@yyz-test-vm linux-ftools]# ./configure ./configure: line 2202: syntax error near unexpected token linux-ftools,' ./configure: line 2202: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(linux-ftools, 1.3.0)'

[chang-chao]

The am__api_version='1.10' line of configure file should be changed according to the version of autotools in your building machine,which can be seen using the automake --version command.

[mavho]

@y123456yz did you manage to fix that error? I'm still getting it and I'm honestly stumped on what to do, I tried the above comment.

[changliwei]

use this version of configuration file it works https://raw.githubusercontent.com/david415/linux-ftools/700823b9fabb28dffb0ed4862eb238ea3e04a6c2/configure