From kdevelop-bugs  Thu Jun 21 22:38:33 2007
From: Joshua Rogers <joshuarogers () hopper ! net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:38:33 +0000
To: kdevelop-bugs
Subject: [Bug 147066] New: detect-autoconf.pl causes kdevelop to give
Message-Id: <20070622003832.147066.joshuarogers () hopper ! net>
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           Summary: detect-autoconf.pl causes kdevelop to give incorrect
                    information
           Product: kdevelop
           Version: 3.4.1
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdevelop-bugs kdevelop org
        ReportedBy: joshuarogers hopper net


Version:           3.4.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package
OS:                Linux

After starting KDevelop, I decided to create a new project using the "Simple KDE application" template.  When I tried to build the project, I got the message:

./admin/cvs.sh: line 33: --version: command not found
*** AUTOCONF NOT FOUND!.
*** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer

Okay.  So, I'm running a fairly new PCLinuxOS install and I forgot to install autoconf.  No problem.  I installed it and tried to build the project again.  Again I received the same message.  I tried running 

perl admin/detect-autoconf.pl 

and was greeted with the message 

# Unable to find automake!!

What was happening was that admin/cvs.sh would call admin/detect-autoconf.pl.  detect-autoconf.pl would fail because it couldn't find automake.  However, it would not export any of the paths, including autoconf, which I did have installed (and it had found).  cvs.sh would later try to run 

$autoconf --version

Since detect-autoconf.pl did not export anything, $autoconf was blank.  Thus it was actually tring to run

--version

causing it to fail with the message that automake is not installed.

It seems that it should export the paths for the programs it can locate, so that cvs.sh (and in turn kdevelop) will be able to state the actual cause of error.

This error can be reproduced if autoconf is install and automake is not.