Issues building from source

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Hello,

Is this project dead? I've been having problems building from source. I think 
these are mainly down to a few changes in build tools since this was written. I 
have included these below. I'd like to gte these working as they do look super 
useful!


What steps will reproduce the problem?

hg clone https://code.google.com/p/linux-ftools/
cd linux-ftools
./configure
make


<pre>
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh 
/home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing --run aclocal-1.11 
/home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing: line 54: aclocal-1.11: command not 
found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.11' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.  You might want
         to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
         any GNU archive site.
 cd . && /bin/sh /home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing --run automake-1.11 --gnu
/home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing: line 54: automake-1.11: command not 
found
WARNING: `automake-1.11' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.
         You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
         Grab them from any GNU archive site.
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh 
/home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing --run autoconf
configure.ac:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
make: *** [configure] Error 1
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autoreconf
make

<pre>
./configure: line 2202: syntax error near unexpected token `linux-ftools,'
./configure: line 2202: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(linux-ftools, 1.3.0)'
</pre>

vi configure.ac

<pre>
AC_INIT([linux-ftools], [1.3.0], BUG-REPORT-ADDRESS)
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([linux-fincore.c])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([linux-ftools], [1.3.0])
</pre>

Changed to...

<pre>
AC_INIT([linux-ftools], [1.3.0])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([linux-fincore.c])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
</pre>

make

<pre>
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh 
/home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing --run aclocal-1.11 
/home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing: line 54: aclocal-1.11: command not 
found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.11' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.  You might want
         to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
         any GNU archive site.
 cd . && /bin/sh /home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing --run automake-1.11 --gnu
/home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing: line 54: automake-1.11: command not 
found
WARNING: `automake-1.11' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.
         You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
         Grab them from any GNU archive site.
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh 
/home/rcampbel/src/linux-ftools/missing --run autoconf
configure.ac:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
make: *** [configure] Error 1
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libtoolize --force
make

<pre>
/bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh /bin/sh ./configure --no-create --no-recursion
./configure: line 2195: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes
checking for _Bool... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for struct stat.st_blksize... yes
checking for struct stat.st_blocks... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... yes
checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes
checking for memset... yes
checking for munmap... yes
checking for strtol... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
 /bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
Makefile:16: *** missing separator.  Stop.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

See above


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

CentOS 7 64 Bit in Virtualbox


Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 27 May 2015 at 3:51

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FYI - The various things I attempted were suggested via google.

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 May 2015 at 3:54