Mike Lundy wrote:
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> I've been having some trouble with the autogen.sh script distributed with
> many CVS projects. Here is the output:
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> Running gettextize, please ignore non-fatal messages....
> Wiping out intl/ subdirectory
> Copying file ABOUT-NLS
> Copying file intl/ChangeLog
> <snip>
> Copying file intl/textdomain.c
> Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
> Adding an entry to po/ChangeLog (backup is in po/ChangeLog~)
> 
> Please add the files
>   codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
>   progtest.m4
> from the /usr/local/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
> or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
> You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
> 
> Running libtoolize, please ignore non-fatal messages....
> You should add the contents of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
> `aclocal.m4'.
> aclocal: configure.in: 9: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
> aclocal: configure.in: 15: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library

You didn't do what gettextize requested you to do above (copy
codeset.m4 .. to ..)

> aclocal: configure.in: 66: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library
> aclocal: configure.in: 66: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library
> aclocal: configure.in: 103: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library

Your gtk-environment is misconfigured or bogusly installed.

> automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
>     error while copying
> 
> automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
>     error while copying
> 
> automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
>     error while copying
A known bug in automake-1.4, fixed in automake-1.4-p1 and later.
 
> configure.in: 9: required file `./ltconfig' not found
> autoconf: Undefined macros:

You are trying to use libtool-1.4 with automake-1.4. Libtool-1.4
needs at least automake-1.4-p2.

> configure.in:8:AC_DISABLE_STATIC

You didn't do what libtoolize has told you to do above (copy
libtool.m4 ...)

> creating cache ./config.cache
> ./configure: line 550: syntax error near unexpected token
> `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
> ./configure: line 550: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
Your automake probably is misconfigured. This macro comes with
automake.
 
> related version information:
> gettext (GNU gettext) 0.10.38

You are using a version of gettext, which is not yet supported by
the package you are trying to build.

> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4 (1.920 2001/04/24 23:26:18)
> Autoconf version 2.13
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4
automake-1.4 doesn't work smoothly with libtool-1.4. 

You might want to upgrade to automake-1.4-p2 if you really want to
use libtool-1.4.

> Any info would be very nice :)
Two alternatives:
1) downgrade to autoconf-2.13, automake-1.4, libtool < 1.4,
gettext-0.10.35
2) Upgrade to autoconf-2.13, automake-1.4-p2, libtool-1.4,
gettext-0.10.38 or 0.10.35

It seems to me that you might be suffering from inconsistencies with
your installation. Probably you have installed some version with
--prefix=/usr and others with --prefix=/usr/local. 

Furthermore, your are trying to use a bleeding-edge version of
gettext with Gnome's autogen.sh. Though this normally doesn't have
fatal side-effects, this is known not to work together smoothly.

Ralf