automake needs a new gnome-doc-utils? or m4?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 12:57 -0500, sean wrote:
> rpm -q automake autoconf gnome-doc-utils
> automake-1.10-2.noarch
> autoconf-2.61-2.noarch
> gnome-doc-utils-0.8.0-2.fc6.noarch

automake has no business with nor is it connected gnome-doc-utils at
all.

> locate gnome-doc-utils.make
> /usr/share/gnome-doc-utils/gnome-doc-utils.make
Well, this is nothing automake would use automatically.

> but:
> 
> + autoreconf -f -i -v
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
> autoreconf: configure.in: tracing
> autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy 
> --force-missing
> configure.in:5: installing `./missing'
> configure.in:5: installing `./install-sh'
> automake: cannot open < gnome-doc-utils.make: No such file 
> or directory
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> 
> 
> Is this a bug, or do I have something misconfigured?
Something is broken with the package you are trying to autoreconf on,
but as you are not telling us which packages this is, nobody will be
able to help.

Ralf