Getting SASL from CVS --- automake complains about errors

[Carlos Velasco]

Hi Chris,

Rob, Ken and me have been working for making cyrus imapd and sasl to work with both autoconf 2.13 and 2.50+

On 21/09/2002 at 4:16 Christian Schulte wrote:


>WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
>WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
>WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
>
>WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
>WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
>WARNING: `acconfig.h':
>
>WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
>WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
>
>WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
>WARNING: documentation.
>autoheader: `config.h.in' is created

Chris, as you see, these are only warnings, really the config.h.in file is created.
If you want to get rid of this warning you can take a look to bug 1408:

http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=1408

>saslauthd manpage is completely empty after installation which is not, 

As Rob has stated

Rob> "make saslauthd.8" in <basedir>/saslauthd and see what happens.

This could help to see where is the problem for your host.
Also, it would be great if you could post your configure line.

>automake --add-missing --include-deps
>Prototype mismatch: sub Automake::SEEK_SET vs () at 
>/usr/local/bin/automake line 8237
>Prototype mismatch: sub Automake::SEEK_CUR vs () at 
>/usr/local/bin/automake line 8237
>Prototype mismatch: sub Automake::SEEK_END vs () at 
>/usr/local/bin/automake line 8237

This error comes from perl as automake uses perl to work.
You should upgrade your automake as the version you are using is broken:

"Unused function causing warnings with Perl 5.005_03"
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/automake-patches/2002-July/001008.html

Regards,
Carlos Velasco