David 2003 free even!

[fryfrog]

This is a general, probably totally dumb question... but I have to run make -f Makefile.dist twice any time I want to compile. It is obvious that it has SOMETHING to do with the backup, as that is mention. My real question pertains to the weird part in the middle of the make. What the hell is...



>> Using Autoconf version................................... Autoconf)
David

2003
free
even!


My distribution is Gentoo, running the ~x86 (unstable/bleeding edge). Anyone else see this or have any idea what "David 2003 free even!" means? :)

First run of make -f Makefile.dist


nightcrawler showeq # make -f Makefile.dist

Compressing and archiving your current binary using bzip2... done!


Your old ShowEQ binary is backed up as:

BACKUP/Mon-Aug-2004_17:44:15/showeq.bz2


NOTE: This feature may be disabled by using the command:
'make -f Makefile.dist no-backup'

To disable it without using a special command... Add an empty
file called: '.no-backup' to this directory, WITH the dot.

Clearing all old Makefile data.............................. done!

Adding libtool support...................................... done!
Generating aclocal.m4 from configure.in and acinclude.m4.... done!

Checking Autoheader version................................. done!
>> Using Autoheader version................................. Autoconf)
Roland

2003
free
even!

Generating configure template (config.h).................... done!
Generating Makefile.in from Makefile.am.....................make[1]: *** [no-backup] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2


Second run of make -f Makefile.dist


nightcrawler showeq # make -f Makefile.dist
Adding libtool support...................................... done!
Generating aclocal.m4 from configure.in and acinclude.m4.... done!

Checking Autoheader version................................. done!
>> Using Autoheader version................................. Autoconf)
Roland

2003
free
even!

Generating configure template (config.h).................... done!
Generating Makefile.in from Makefile.am..................... done!

Checking Autoconf version................................... done!
>> Using Autoconf version................................... Autoconf)
David

2003
free
even!

Finalizing Autoconf script (configure)...................... done!
Releasing temporary file handles............................ done!

[Cryonic]

if you look in the Makefile you can see what is going on:



ahver=`autoheader --version 2>> Makefile.dist.dbg | awk '{print $$3}'`;


so those lines you are showing are output from autoheader and nothing to do with SEQ....

[fryfrog]

I'm unsurprized to find it has nothing to do with SEQ... but any idea what the hell it means? :p

[spungee]

I upgraded autoconfig to 2.54c using rpm -U (don't shoot me just yet)
autoconfig --version reports version 2.54c now, but I still get that error msg doing make -f Makefile.dist, except I get the "Your version of autoconf sucks!" msg too. Tried to find something with google on how to upgrade since I'm probably missing some steps to make it work properly, but no luck.

[Zaphod]

spungee, I'm not sure what you did, but may I suggest you make your own thread instead of hijackin an unrelated one. In yours please include info as to what Linux distribution you are using, including which version of the distribution.

Thanks and Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)