How to resolve .../Makefile is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES error

DeeGee · 04-23-2013, 11:55 PM

I am getting a 'Makefile is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES' error when I try to make an activity in gcompris. The problem is with aclocal but despite googling, I have no idea how to fic it. Here's the code segment. I am using Debian.

All help is much appreciated!

Code:

dee@dee:~/gcompris/src$ make
cd .. && make  am--refresh
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dee/gcompris'
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash /home/dee/gcompris/missing --run aclocal-1.11 -I m4
acinclude.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of AM_CHECK_PYMOD
acinclude.m4:4:   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
acinclude.m4:4:   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
configure.ac:515: error: `src/dee-activity/lib/autoconf/status.m4:290: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.ac:515: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.11: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
make[1]: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dee/gcompris'
make: *** [../aclocal.m4] Error 2

DeeGee · 04-24-2013, 01:44 AM

<BUMP> please

EDDY1 · 04-24-2013, 01:56 AM

I think you've added an extra step like

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cd gcompris/src

as seen here

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Download the archive gcompris-X.X.tar.gz then:
tar -xvf gcompris-X.X.tar.gz
cd gcompris-X.X
sh configure
Analyse, the errors, install the missing dependancies. Often you will have to install the -devel packages on your distribution. On Ubuntu or Debian, you can get all the build dependancies with the command ’apt-get build-dep gcompris’.

Then run:
make
make install

druuna · 04-24-2013, 02:27 AM

Is building gcompris from source on Debian an exercise?

I'm asking because gcompris is part of Debian and thus present as a package (no need to build from source).

BTW: Don't bump your own thread. A few reasons:
- It is seen as rude (especially if you do so within a few hours),
- You take yourself off the zero-reply list (= less exposure).

Only excepted exception: You have extra info you want to add.