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*** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60. KDE requires autoconf 2.52, 2.53 or 2.

I have been programming in an amatuer way for years in Pascal, Delphi and Java and thought that as a linux user I ought to have a look at C and programing for kde.

I went to kdevelop and thought I would try a HellowWorld as shown here

http://www.dazzle.plus.com/linux/part01.htm

Straightforward? No I have this error on run automake and friends

*** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60.
*** KDE requires autoconf 2.52, 2.53 or 2.54

Is this a problem with the way kdevelop is set up on slackware. I have never used kdevelop before but shouldn't Helloworld work on Slackware 11.0?

do I need to uninstall autoconf and re-install an earlier version

Hmm, I've just managed to reproduce the same error:

Code:

cd '/home/andrew/programming/hellokde/hellokde' && WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" gmake -f Makefile.cvs && mkdir '/home/andrew/programming/hellokde/hellokde/debug' && cd '/home/andrew/programming/hellokde/hellokde/debug' && CXXFLAGS="-O0 -g3" "/home/andrew/programming/hellokde/hellokde/configure" --enable-debug=full && cd '/home/andrew/programming/hellokde/hellokde/debug/src' && WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" gmake -k hellokde

This Makefile is only for the CVS repository

This will be deleted before making the distribution

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*** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60.

*** KDE requires autoconf 2.52, 2.53 or 2.54

gmake[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1

gmake: *** [all] Error 2

*** Exited with status: 2 ***

I suspect that this is the problem:

Code:

&& WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1"

But I have no idea how to change that, I'm only an occasional programmer.

PS: I've occasionally used kdevelop under 10.2 and never encountered this problem.

Just discovered something that might help:

Open the project in kdevelop, then under the 'Project' menu open the 'Project Options' dialog.

Scroll down until you see 'Make Options', click on that and edit 'WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5' and change the value from 1 to 0.

Hopefully that should solve the problem

No. I still get the same problem.

It gets odder. Looking at the changelog even Slackware 9.0 was running 2.57

I had the same problem when compiling a qt-app.
It turned out to be autoconf version 2.5x "hardcoded" into the makefile of the project.
I changed the line

Code:

Autoconf*2.5* | autoconf*2.5* ) : ;;

Code:

Autoconf*2.5* | autoconf*2.5* | Autoconf*2.6* | autoconf*2.6* ) : ;;

that did the job. After that everything compiled just fine.

I cannot find anything like that in any of the files but I posted this as a bug on the kde site and got this message

Fixed for KDevelop 3.4 and it's possible that it's also fixed for KDevelop 3.3.5 (KDE 3.5.5)

So I will try and upgrade.

The line is in the cvs.sh file. But you have to change the next part for in this file for "autoheader" too.