Hello.
I have found an open bug of GNU Paint that looks simple, but it has got no visible atention for almost 2 years. I am not sure what the problem is either. But I am hoping that around here someone should know something, or point to new ideas.
The bug description is at
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?43312 , and I repeat it here to justify the existence of this thread.
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Today I tried to compile gpaint, but after doing a 'git clone' I couldn't run ./configure.
The error shown:
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$./configure
configure: error: cannot run /bin/bash ./config.sub
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After switching computers, trying again and the problem repeating, I figured out:
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$ls -l
config.guess -> /usr/share/automake-1.13/config.guess
config.sub -> /usr/share/automake-1.13/config.sub
depcomp -> /usr/share/automake-1.13/depcomp
ltmain.sh -> /usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh
missing -> /usr/share/automake-1.13/missing
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The files that were symbolic links were all broken. But the machines have automake installed! So I checked the dirs that symlinks wanted.
To make it short, different versions of automake were present, on both machines (previous and following versions, by the way; e.g., 1.11 and 1.4).
I don't know why this happens, but I guess it shouldn't.
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