Questions tagged [autoconf]

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does "make" recompile all of the files or just changed ones

suppose that you have a program which you installed that from source by make command . That program include files a.cc, b.cc, c.cc, d.cc and ... . Now I changed a.cc a bit. In order to enable the changes I should compile the program again by make…
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How do I fix these M4 macro errors?

I am trying to compile mate-desktop but when I run ./autogen.sh the script terminates with these errors Checking for required M4 macros... libtool.m4 not found glib-gettext.m4 not found intltool.m4 not found pkg.m4 not found gtk-doc.m4 not…
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IPv6 SLAAC (ICMPv6 Router Advertisments) are ignored by wlan1 interface

I installed 15.04 on my Thinkpad W520. However, I'm not able to get IPv6 working on wlan1 interface: ifconfig wlan1 wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 8c:70:5a:d2:65:bc inet addr:10.0.1.61 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 …
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Autoreconf error: failed with exit status: 1

I try to install mp4fpsmod on Linux 4.19.104+ x86_64 Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS in Colab. To reproduse please copypaste these three lines into a Colab cell and hit shift+enter: !git clone -qqq https://github.com/nu774/mp4fpsmod.git > /dev/null !sudo apt-get…
F. Vosnim
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How to convert Makefile.am to Makefile.in?

I'm trying to install gnuplot 5.3 from github. I'm running aclocal autoheader autoconf automake inside the package location. This gives an error because automake is looking for Makefile.in and I have a bunch of Makefile.am files, supposedly…
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checkinstall / make does not work for the program razercfg that I wish to install

My goal is to change my mouse DPI. So any less frustrating solution is also welcome. I've already searched and read through the other topics about razercfg & many others trying to figure out how to not get these errors but I'm new to Linux and even…
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Error in configure.ac file while running aclocal

I am following https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install to learn how to use autoconf and automake to create the configure script and Makefile. Below is the content of configure.ac file: AC_INIT ([helloworld], [0.1],…
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'autoconf' 2.50 not found when compiling 'mate-common' 1.15.0

I wanted to compile mate 1.15 on Ubuntu 16.04, but when I run ./autogen.sh in mate-common-1.15.0 it outputs this : checking for autoconf >= 2.53... testing autoconf2.50... not found. testing autoconf... found 2.69 The rest works well. So I searched…
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autoconf: error: no input file

I am trying to install a program I downloaded, linpac. I opened the README, and it claimed all I have to do is ./confugure;make;make install but I am stuck on the ./configure because there is no configure file. There is a configure.ac file, so I…
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Trying to Build and Install apinger

I am running 14.04 server (minimal install) and I am trying to build apinger (https://github.com/Jajcus/apinger). Here is a log of what I get when I run ./autogen.sh: The first couple of lines point to some autoconf lib that seems to not exist on my…
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Unable to get both RA and DHCP6 address on a particular nic

My host is connected to a network that is connected to Router and DHCP6 server. radvd.conf setting on the router is given below: interface eth1 { AdvSendAdvert on; AdvManagedFlag on; AdvOtherConfigFlag off; prefix fc00:192:168:30::/64 …
Shruti Basu
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Unable to install php8.2-dev on ubuntu 20.04

I'm trying to install swool using perl on ubuntu server then i get bellow error: ERROR: `phpize' failed As i searched turns out i should install php-dev but then i got below errors: The following packages have unmet dependencies: php8.2-dev :…
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Configure requires a working autoconf/pkg-config

I need to update libdmtx and dmtx-utils on Ubuntu 18.04. Both these packages aren't installed through apt. I compiled and installed libdmtx with prefix /usr/local/stow/libdmtx-0.7.7 and created all the required symlinks inside /usr/local using stow…
Claudio
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How to install Celestia on 19.10

Celestia still doesn't have binaries for 19.10 The other option is to build from source. I've downloaded the source of 1.6.2-beta2 from github. Installed needed packages written here. plus gettext said here. so the needed packages was: sudo apt…
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Problem with autoreconf

I'm having a problem when trying to build the library libmatheval (problem is reoccurring regardless of version chosen). The documentation says that before building and installing it I should run autoreconf -fi, which is causing an issue. The…
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