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From: Joel Yliluoma
Subject: Re: Error building POV-Ray 3.7 on Linux (Debian Testing)
Date: 22 Nov 2013 14:05:36
Message: <slrnl8vanv.hjo.bisqwit@bisqwit.iki.fi>
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:08:00 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 07:15 AM, Joel Yliluoma wrote:
>
> In the +automake section this is where things start to differ from what 
> I'm getting:
><snipped a bunch>
>>    configure.ac:185: error: required file 'unix/config/compile' not found
>>    configure.ac:185:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'


Yes, this seems to be the case.


The problem was eventually resolved by running "automake --add-missing"
in the top directory _after_ prebuild.sh was run once, and then running
prebuild.sh again...

This appeared to generate a symlink, compile->/usr/share/automake-1.14/compile
in unix/config/ . Then it configured and compiled properly.

Why does this not happen otherwise?
I have no idea.


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Joel Yliluoma
http://iki.fi/bisqwit/


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Error building POV-Ray 3.7 on Linux (Debian Testing)
Date: 22 Nov 2013 14:43:32
Message: <528fb3e4$1@news.povray.org>
Am 22.11.2013 20:03, schrieb Joel Yliluoma:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:39:31 +0100, clipka wrote:
>> Am 21.11.2013 13:15, schrieb Joel Yliluoma:
>>> I am having trouble building POV-Ray 3.7.
>>
>> Am I correctly infering from the subject line that you are running a
>> non-stable version of Linux?
>
> It's stable all right. What it isn't is stale.

Mind you, I'm not talking about stable = not crashing all the time; I'm 
talking about stable = has undergone extensive enough testing to use it 
in a production environment.


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From: Joel Yliluoma
Subject: Re: Error building POV-Ray 3.7 on Linux (Debian Testing)
Date: 22 Nov 2013 17:36:56
Message: <slrnl8vn48.i4l.bisqwit@bisqwit.iki.fi>
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:51:43 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
> one other thing that /might/ cause problems ... the version of make you 
> are using. INSTALL file cites version 3.79 or above. on mine:
>
> make --version
>
> returns GNU Make 3.82

3.81 here. But I don't think it's likely that the version of "make" is
relevant here. The errors happen in prebuild.sh which to my knowledge
never invokes "make".

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Joel Yliluoma
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From: marecaca
Subject: Re: Error building POV-Ray 3.7 on Linux (Debian Testing)
Date: 27 Feb 2014 15:10:01
Message: <web.530f9b26ec21ff0a3c6a9e30@news.povray.org>
Joel Yliluoma <bis### [at] ikifi> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:08:00 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
> > On 11/21/2013 07:15 AM, Joel Yliluoma wrote:
> >
> > In the +automake section this is where things start to differ from what
> > I'm getting:
> ><snipped a bunch>
> >>    configure.ac:185: error: required file 'unix/config/compile' not found
> >>    configure.ac:185:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'
>
>
> Yes, this seems to be the case.
>
>
> The problem was eventually resolved by running "automake --add-missing"
> in the top directory _after_ prebuild.sh was run once, and then running
> prebuild.sh again...
>
> This appeared to generate a symlink, compile->/usr/share/automake-1.14/compile
> in unix/config/ . Then it configured and compiled properly.
>
> Why does this not happen otherwise?
> I have no idea.
>
>
> --
> Joel Yliluoma
> http://iki.fi/bisqwit/


i play with debian testing amd64 too
Thankyou!
i had the same problem and solve in this way...


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From: Mike
Subject: Re: Error building POV-Ray 3.7 on Linux (Debian Testing)
Date: 27 Dec 2014 01:35:01
Message: <web.549e52f9ec21ff0a3db129150@news.povray.org>
Same problem here with Ubuntu 14. The problem with the missing Makefile.in
appears when downloading the ZIP. Retrieving with GIT solves the issue.

Joel Yliluoma <bis### [at] ikifi> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:39:31 +0100, clipka wrote:
> > Am 21.11.2013 13:15, schrieb Joel Yliluoma:
> >> I am having trouble building POV-Ray 3.7.
> >
> > Am I correctly infering from the subject line that you are running a
> > non-stable version of Linux?
>
> It's stable all right. What it isn't is stale.
>
> --
> Joel Yliluoma
> http://iki.fi/bisqwit/


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