[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#11041) autoconf of cvs tree Q

["Ed Earl Ross" <edearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11041 >

Please help, I'm a newbie to Linux, have not used either cvs, autoconfig 
or automake--need help. Tried to find instructions for building freeciv 
from a cvs tree, but haven't found enough to help.

1) Downloaded the cvs tree--OK as far as I can tell.
2) Ran autoconfig, and got the following messages:

    [root@edearl freeciv]# autoconf
    configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
          If this token and others are legitimate, please use
    m4_pattern_allow.
          See the Autoconf documentation.
    configure.ac:23: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
    configure.ac:40: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
    configure.ac:52: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
    configure.ac:153: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
    configure.ac:338: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_ICONV
    configure.ac:339: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_LIBCHARSET
    configure.ac:340: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_LANGINFO_CODESET
    configure.ac:493: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_FUNC_VSNPRINTF

The config.log is attached.

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure 

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = edearl.localdomain
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 Wed Oct 29 15:31:21 EST 2003

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo               = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /usr/kerberos/sbin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/kerberos/bin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin
PATH: /home/edearl/bin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##


## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

ac_cv_env_CC_set=
ac_cv_env_CC_value=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=

## ----------------- ##
## Output variables. ##
## ----------------- ##

AR=''
AWK=''
CC=''
CFLAGS=''
CLIENT_CFLAGS=''
CLIENT_LDFLAGS=''
CLIENT_LIBS=''
CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES=''
CPP=''
CPPFLAGS=''
CVS_DEPS=''
DEFS=''
ECHO_C=''
ECHO_N='-n'
ECHO_T=''
EGREP=''
EXEEXT=''
LDFLAGS=''
LIBOBJS=''
LIBS=''
LN_S=''
LTLIBOBJS=''
OBJEXT=''
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
PACKAGE_NAME=''
PACKAGE_STRING=''
PACKAGE_TARNAME=''
PACKAGE_VERSION=''
PATH_SEPARATOR=':'
RANLIB=''
SERVER_LIBS=''
SHELL='/bin/sh'
SOUND_CFLAGS=''
SOUND_LIBS=''
UNAME=''
VERSION_LABEL=''
VERSION_WITHOUT_LABEL=''
ac_ct_AR=''
ac_ct_CC=''
ac_ct_RANLIB=''
bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
build=''
build_alias=''
build_cpu=''
build_os=''
build_vendor=''
datadir='${prefix}/share'
exec_prefix='NONE'
gui_sources=''
host=''
host_alias=''
host_cpu=''
host_os=''
host_vendor=''
includedir='${prefix}/include'
infodir='${prefix}/info'
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
mandir='${prefix}/man'
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
prefix='NONE'
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target=''
target_alias=''
target_cpu=''
target_os=''
target_vendor=''

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
#define PACKAGE_NAME ""
#define PACKAGE_STRING ""
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
#define PACKAGE_VERSION ""

configure: exit 258