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autoconf fails to build plunit

Published: 2011-06-02

David Edelstein

following instructions from this site:

http://jeff.dallien.net/posts/installing-plunit-on-ubuntu

git clone http://prolog.cs.vu.nl/git/packages/plunit.git

dave@deb5:~/prologlibs$ cd plunit 
dave@deb5:~/prologlibs/plunit$ ls 
autom4te.cache  examples     Makefile.mak  README         test_wizard.pl 
ChangeLog       install-sh   plunit.doc    swi.pl 
configure.in    Makefile.in  plunit.pl     test_cover.pl 
dave@deb5:~/prologlibs/plunit$ autoconf 
/usr/bin/m4:configure.in:6: cannot open `../ac_swi_noc.m4&rsquo;: No such 
file or directory 
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 
dave@deb5:~/prologlibs/plunit$

I wish I understood enough about autoconf to see why. I do not have
this m4 file on my machine… but am I supposed to create it using
some other part of the build chain?