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Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards

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Trying To Install Libnotify

When I run sudo sh autogen.sh I get this output: Processing ./configure.ac Running gtkdocize... Running autoreconf... autoreconf: Entering directory ``.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal --force…
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Error in configure.ac file while running aclocal

I am following https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install to learn how to use autoconf and automake to create the configure script and Makefile. Below is the content of configure.ac file: AC_INIT ([helloworld], [0.1],…
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How to force apt-get to install automake v1.16 while it says 1.15 is already the newest version?

I got an error of missing aclocal-1.16 -I m4 in building my system. I tried to fix it by installing the newest version of automake, but it tells me that my automake is 1.15 which is already the newest version. I googled it and found the newest…
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How to convert Makefile.am to Makefile.in?

I'm trying to install gnuplot 5.3 from github. I'm running aclocal autoheader autoconf automake inside the package location. This gives an error because automake is looking for Makefile.in and I have a bunch of Makefile.am files, supposedly…
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automake according to Ubuntu Software Center

Following description can be found in Ubuntu Software Center (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) for Automake package: Automake 1.15 fails to work in a number of situations that Automake 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 and 1.14 did, so previous versions are…
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Building Python Extension Packages for Launchpad

I have an autotools project (c++) which I build packages for on a launchpad ppa Recently I've attempted to add a python package to that archive. I've tested it locally with bzr dh-make and also using pbuilder. Both work fantastically. On launchpad…
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Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.37.3 ...-snip-...) were not met

I'm attempting to compile the Gnome System Monitor and I'm running into an error when executing ./configure. Not sure what packages are required here as I've attempted to apt-get libgtop-2.0 and librsvg-2.0. configure: error: Package requirements…
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Makefile:448: *** missing separator. Stop. error

The tutorial I am following is the automake hello world. I am compiling a code using GTK+2 and C language hp@ubuntu:~/amhello$ autoreconf --install configure.ac:2: installing `./install-sh' configure.ac:2: installing `./missing' src/Makefile.am:…
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How to make 'Make' to handle more new pairs of source files indicated by its extension name

How can we modify a Makefile script to handle more new pairs of source files indicated by its extension name to be compiled by Make automatically correctly and preferably interactively #... objects = a.o b.o c.o d.o e.o f.o main.o h.o i.o Binary :…
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configure: error: Package requirements(...) were not met

I am trying to make some tweaks to Unity Greeter. So I fetched the source code from launchpad.net. The package came with no makefile. After a bit of googling, I found they use autotools project structure. When I used automake tool to create the make…
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Installing Source Library -- uriparser

I am new to the ubuntu and linux community and have decided to migrate my current C project to my new ubuntu workstation. I am currently working on a simple HTTP proxy as an educational personal project. I am fairly new to socket programming, C, and…
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How to upgrade automake to 1.16.5?

In a Ubuntu 20.04 system, I had to upgrade autoconf to 2.71, which then required upgrading automake to 1.16.5. I downloaded automake-1.16_1.16.5-1.3.debian.tar.xz but after uncompressing, it has no 'configure' file. The directory looks…
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Automake failing to compile anything

I've tried to compile programs, including neofetch, cmatrix, browsh, and a few others all to the same effect. I run: git clone repo Works fine cd repo name Works fine ./autogen.sh Works fine ./configure Always comes out as something like…
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Build libfslcodec-4.0.8 on Ubuntu 16.04 for IMX6Q

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.1.15 on IMX6Q "sabresd" Board and successfully boot. I used this instruction to install rootfs also I changed distro and solved some issues by myself. Just now I tried compile libfslcodec-4.0.8 but I have…
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Protobuf installation fails due to version mismatch of Automake

I was following the answer on: How can I install protoc on Ubuntu 16.04? But, my protobuf installation make fails with versioning issue in Automake /protobuf/missing automake-1.15 --foreign configure.ac:48: error: version mismatch. This is Automake…
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