OK, here's another one: If autoconf is not installed, the fetchmail
build is badly broken - the GNU configure mechanism provides for this
case by replacing autoconf, autoheader, aclocal et al invocations
with an invocation of a script named 'missing' with the name of the missing
program as a parameter, which does an appropriate thing. Unfortunately,
such a script is not included in the fetchmail distribution, which breaks
the build if there is no autoconf.
Attached is a sample script, taken from the GNU bc source distribution,
which works perfectly fine if placed in the same directory as install.sh
(which in this case happens to be the top-level fetchmail directory).
G'luck,
Peter
--
What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential?
#! /bin/sh
# Common stub for a few missing GNU programs while installing.
# Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Franc,ois Pinard <pinard(_at_)iro(_dot_)umontreal(_dot_)ca>, 1996.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
# any later version.
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
# 02111-1307, USA.
if test $# -eq 0; then
echo 1>&2 "Try \`$0 --help' for more information"
exit 1
fi
case "$1" in
-h|--h|--he|--hel|--help)
echo "\
$0 [OPTION]... PROGRAM [ARGUMENT]...
Handle \`PROGRAM [ARGUMENT]...' for when PROGRAM is missing, or return an
error status if there is no known handling for PROGRAM.
Options:
-h, --help display this help and exit
-v, --version output version information and exit
Supported PROGRAM values:
aclocal touch file \`aclocal.m4'
autoconf touch file \`configure'
autoheader touch file \`config.h.in'
automake touch all \`Makefile.in' files
bison touch file \`y.tab.c'
makeinfo touch the output file
yacc touch file \`y.tab.c'"
;;
-v|--v|--ve|--ver|--vers|--versi|--versio|--version)
echo "missing - GNU libit 0.0"
;;
-*)
echo 1>&2 "$0: Unknown \`$1' option"
echo 1>&2 "Try \`$0 --help' for more information"
exit 1
;;
aclocal)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. It should be needed only if
you modified \`acinclude.m4' or \`configure.in'. You might want
to install the \`Automake' and \`Perl' packages. Grab them from
any GNU archive site."
touch aclocal.m4
;;
autoconf)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. It should be needed only if
you modified \`configure.in'. You might want to install the
\`Autoconf' and \`GNU m4' packages. Grab them from any GNU
archive site."
touch configure
;;
autoheader)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. It should be needed only if
you modified \`acconfig.h' or \`configure.in'. You might want
to install the \`Autoconf' and \`GNU m4' packages. Grab them
from any GNU archive site."
touch config.h.in
;;
automake)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. It should be needed only if
you modified \`Makefile.am', \`acinclude.m4' or \`configure.in'.
You might want to install the \`Automake' and \`Perl' packages.
Grab them from any GNU archive site."
find . -type f -name Makefile.am -print \
| sed 's/^\(.*\).am$/touch \1.in/' \
| sh
;;
bison|yacc)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. It should be needed only if
your modified any \`.y' file. For being effective, your
modifications might require the \`Bison' package. Grab it from
any GNU archive site."
touch y.tab.c
;;
makeinfo)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. It should be needed only if
you modified a \`.texi' or \`.texinfo' file, or any other file
indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual. The spurious
call might also be the consequence of using a buggy \`make' (AIX,
DU, IRIX). You might want to install the \`Texinfo' package or
the \`GNU make' package. Grab either from any GNU archive site."
file=`echo "$*" | sed -n 's/.*-o \([^ ]*\).*/\1/p'`
if test -z "$file"; then
file=`echo "$*" | sed 's/.* \([^ ]*\) *$/\1/'`
file=`sed -n '/^(_at_)setfilename/ { s/.* \([^ ]*\) *$/\1/; p; q; }'
$file`
fi
touch $file
;;
*)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your
system. You might have modified some files without having the
proper tools for further handling them. Check the \`README' file,
it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing
this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
some other package would contain this missing \`$1' program."
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0