Bringing up this thread with some little more information.
I'm trying to autoreconf this HP48 emulator (x48 -- HP48 CPU emulator) which, by the way, most probably won't compile because I need X and I still didn't install development files. But this is not my issue.
My problems with auto* tools still remain: if I launch
sh /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi
or similar invocation I get this error
aclocal: running echo 'm4_define([m4_require_silent_probe], [-])' | autom4te --l
anguage Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 - /usr/share/aclocal-1.16/internal/ac-confi
g-macro-dirs.m4 @C:/var/temp/PW47KLolVM configure.ac
Can't open perl script "exe": No such file or directory
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 2
which gives me nothing since I still can't figure out what "exe" script perl is searching for. Also, for the life of me I can't understand why the script tries to write in C:\var\temp since I set every temporary variable to D:\temp, where I develop.
attaching a log from the execution of aclocal. Most probably will be useless, since it's got no warnings at all.
Mentore
Another attempt, this time after re-installing autoconf and automake: this time I receive
sh /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi
/usr/bin/autoreconf.: /@unixroot/usr/bin/perl: not found
Getting kind of lost here...
Mentore
And what shell are you using?
KO, Dave, thanks.
Perl installed and I'm using sh as default shell.
The really really strange thing is that everything used to work until someday this happened.
And I really can't understand why :o
I wonder if this has something to do with a certain clean.exe software I installed in lieu of the already present one in /usr/bin, but I don't know what the correlation may be.
I'll try something this morning changing che autotools with the latest version provided by KO and report back.
The toolchain works, by the way - I was able to recreate an OS/2 version of ZesarUX (https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux (https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux)), a really interesting multi machines emulator under SDL. It seems OS/2 finally has his Sinclair QL emulator 8)
Thanks again!
Mentore
Re-quoting myself.
I am still in the midst of this... I edited libtoolize, aclocal, autoconf, autoreconf and some other files to remove every instance of the string "/@unixroot" since it seemed to cause troubles.
Trying to run autoconf, autoreconf and aclocal from scripts and command line I always receive the same error in aclocal:
From ksh
Running aclocal
Can't open perl script "exe": No such file or directory
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 2
Error: aclocal failed
Similar error occur if I try from sh or ash. I'm starting to get frustrated, since everything worked great before...
Maybe a complete system reinstallation would be needed. I'll think about that.
Mentore