There is a reason no one reported it because for some strange reason I had automake version 1.4!!

I don't know how I ended up with such an old version. I did an apt-get install automake just to make sure I was up to date and hey presto 1.10.1 gets installed and all is well.

Thanks for the help Enrico et al.

Now I will get on with playing with Geany!

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger@uvena.de> wrote:
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:45:12 +1000, "Adam Meehan"
> Thanks Enrico.
>
> distclean didn't make a difference unfortunately.
>
> There was no such file as 'tagmanager/libtagmanager.a'. The tagmanager
> directory exists though.
>
> One other warning/error in the configure output which I missed and
> possible involved is this
>
> Running automake --gnu  ...
> tagmanager/Makefile.am:14: libtagmanager_a_SOURCES defined both
> conditionally and unconditionally

Yes, this one is really related to the problem. But I don't really
understand it. It seems your automake doesn't understand correctly the
'+=' operator which is used to add a value to an existing variable.

> src/Makefile.am:73: invalid unused variable name:
> `nodist_EXTRA_geany_SOURCES'

This is also strange and would cause another problem. Line 73 tells the
automake to use the C++ linker when creating the geany binary but since
your automake doesn't accept this line, the C linker is used and this
causes other linker errors (just not yet visible due to the previous
errors).


What version of automake do you have installed ('automake --version')?
There must be something different on your system from others, I can't
imagine this happens on all Ubuntu 8.04 systems and nobody reported it
before.


Regards,
Enrico

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