[Mono-dev] Mono build bug

"Andrés G. Aragoneses" knocte at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 15:58:31 UTC 2014


On 01/04/14 17:22, Kuba Vaněk wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I cloned mono 897e95954ec2b1bb7bc76572dff6071b3ae4c64b from git.
> When I try to build Mono, it prints this (yes, I also tried to delete
> original folder and then reclone):
> 
> $ ./autogen.sh  --prefix=/usr
> Running libtoolize...
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> Running aclocal -I m4 -I .  ...
> aclocal: error: configure.ac is required
> 
> **Error**: aclocal failed. This may mean that you have not
> installed all of the packages you need, or you may need to
> set ACLOCAL_FLAGS to include "-I $prefix/share/aclocal"
> for the prefix where you installed the packages whose
> macros were not found

I think it's because mono is using configure.in instead configure.ac
(the former may be finally deprecated). Try to rename the file and see
if it works. If it doesn't, you will need the help of some
autohell^H^H^H^Htools expert.



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