Re: nmap's bundled libpcre and automake

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 01:33:34PM +0100, Johannes Nixdorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the way you modify the copy of libpcre you distribute is confuses
> autoreconf into thinking automake can be run because configure.ac still
> uses the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro, which fails since you removed Makefile.am
> from it.
>
> I attached a patch fixing this by removing AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE from
> libpcre's configure.ac
>
> Best regards,
>
> Johannes Nixdorf

> diff -r -u nmap-5.51.orig/libpcre/configure.ac nmap-5.51/libpcre/configure.ac
> --- nmap-5.51.orig/libpcre/configure.ac       2012-02-08 13:01:16.799758211 +0100
> +++ nmap-5.51/libpcre/configure.ac    2012-02-08 13:01:31.934673128 +0100
> @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
>  AC_PREREQ(2.57)
>  AC_INIT(PCRE, pcre_major.pcre_minor[]pcre_prerelease, , pcre)
>  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([pcre.h.in])
> -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2 dist-zip])
>  AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)

I tried this patch, but then after "autoreconf", I get an error with
"make":

Makefile:15: *** missing separator.  Stop.

The patch seems to leave the SET_MAKE substitution undefined. Do you see
the same? What are your circumstances that you have to run autoreconf?

David Fifield
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