[GRASS-user] compiling grass65svn - error on ubuntu 11.10

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:
>
> since very long time (mainly working on the windows-platform)
> I'm trying again compiling grass65svn on linux, here on my box the
> fresh ubuntu 11.10.
>
> my configure line is:
>
> myricaria at myricaria-hp-pavilion-ze4900-PJ920EA-ABD:/usr/local/src/grass/grass6_devel$
> ./configure
>
> --with-cxx
> --with-sqlite
>  --with-cairo
> --with-freetype
> --with-nls
> --with-read-line
> --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config
> --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config
> --with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config
> --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2/
> --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj
>
> I'm getting following:
>
> configure: error: can not run ./config.sub

Please post also the lines before that.

> following http://code.google.com/p/bioapi-linux/issues/detail?id=2
> there seems to be some issues with automake and connected things.

not sure if that posting is relevant here...

> I'm a little bit confused, because on ubuntu 11.10, there are available
> automake and connected things with version 1.09, 1.10, 1.11 ...
>
> any hints?

you need autoconf 2.13 (not 2.65) but both can be installed in parallel.

Markus