[Orca-users] make causes autoconf error

[Blair Zajac]

Joe Janitor wrote:
> 
> --- Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> >
> > Try
> >
> > % touch configure
> > % make
> >
> > This looks like a problem with my orca-0.27.tar.bz2 file.  I did
> > a fresh export from Subversion and it checked out configure.in
> > after configure, so it wants to recreate configure.
> >
> > Best,
> > Blair
> 
> Well, that "worked". I say it like that because it
> seems that when I ran 'make', it ran through configure
> again (presumably without my --options). I say that
> because I got a lot of "Checking for..." type lines.
> 
> So, I tried from the beginning, 'make clean' and
> 'rm config.cache', then re-execute 'configure' with
> my options, and viola 'make' worked fine. Not sure
> what might have happened the first time, your 'touch'
> suggestion makes me think the datestamp was bad
> for some reason? Anyway, now it's fine.

Good.

> 
> On to the next step, 'make test_modules': well,
> this has uncertain output, including 'All tests successful',
> 'dubious', and 'Error 2'. Complete output (last 20 or
> so lines):

Install the Test::More module.  Get it from

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.47.tar.gz

If you know how to use CPAN, that'll be a lot easier.  Try

perl -MCPAN -e shell

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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