trouble in heaven : ./bootstrap-sh

[chocard]

Hi all,

I downloaded VS from the SVN repository with the howto from the Wiki (http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/ ... eckout_SVN) but I can't build the engine.

When I write ./bootstrap-sh I have the error message :

Code: Select all

VegaStrike Configuration Preparation Tool
  Maintained by Brian A. Lloyd
  (balloyd1@users.sourceforge.net)
Please send bug reports or comments about this script
to the email above or else visit
vegastrike.sourceforge.net for help in using this script

The recommended way to change the behaviour of this script
is to modify the path so that the version of automake or
autoconf you want to use is found first.
Alternately, you can explicitly specify the program to be
used for each in the following variables.
$ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF, $AUTOHEADER
For proper functionality, both aclocal and automake must be the
same version, and autoconf and autoheader should be the same version.

read: 93: arg count
read: 93: arg count
read: 116: arg count
read: 122: arg count
Running aclocal
Running autoheader
Running autoconf
Running automake
Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./README' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found
An error occurred while running the autotools.  Please correct.

What can I do ?

Thanks

PS : As you can read it, I'm only french....

[mduf]

One guy had a similar problem because he used a fat partition, maybe you can find the answer on this thread.

http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forum ... php?t=7648

[loki1950]

chocard it appears that your check out of SVN is incomplete.

Enjoy the Choice

[chocard]

Thanks for you answer.

To Loki : ok, but how to complete my SVN ? I tried the "SVN update" and even downloaded files from the SVN repository (http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vegastrike/trunk/
No success. And I have the authors, news and readme file in the Vegastrike folder.

I'm afraid the problem is more with the makefile.am.

To mduf : it seems to be the correct answer. But how to be sure if my partition is Fat or not ?

[chocard]

To mudf : sorry for the stupid question, definitly I'm a dumb noob.

And you're right : my partition is FAT32.

I'm going to study the thread you send and try again.

Thanks in advance

[ace123]

Fat32 is a really stupidly-designed filesystem in order to keep compatibility for a long time, so there are many variants on how to store filenames because every version of Windows and DOS did it differently.

Linux fortunately gives the mount option "shortname=" to change the way it stores this.

The default rule is "shortname=lower". The rule seems to be that any file that is all the same case (all upper case or all lower case) will be stored as a "shortname" and converted to lowercase.

I use shortname=mixed, as it preserves the name that is used, whether it be all lowercase or all uppercase.

If you open up your /etc/fstab file as root, you can look for your fat32 partition, and change the mount options. add a "shortname=mixed" option to the vfat mount, and then if you remount it, the filenames for INSTALL, and so on should be correctly uppercase.

Really, I don't understand why lowercase is the default setting as it breaks compatibility with unix-type programs that expect case preservation.

[chocard]

thanks a lot.

But I'm going to do something else : increase the size of my /home partition and download VS there.

It' not the first time I have trouble in the fat partition and I want to solve it once for all.

thanks again !!