[geos-devel] latest geos cvs breaks on make

[Norman Vine]

Heitzso writes:
> 
> (note this is after deleting references to examples tree
> from configure and configure.in)
> 
> ./configure
> make
> 
> fails with the following message:
> 
> source/geom/Makefile.am:
>    required file './depcomp' not found
> 
> 
> Am I missing something or is the cvs tree unstable
> at the moment?

Since you are working with developer files and not a 'release'
you are expected to unerstand the gnu autotool system :-)

i.e 
aclocal, automake libtool and friends

Probably easiest to just run the included autogen.sh script
which should just do the right things for you

For some background info see 
http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/

and thread starting here
http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2003-August/002852.html 

HTH

Norman