[OTR-dev] finch & otr

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 06:37:30PM +0200, kardan wrote:
> Am Sat, 29 Jun 2013 11:46:26 -0400
> schrieb Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca>:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:00:15PM +0200, kardan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > am on this list since some months but found no time for reading so
> > > far. Now I enjoyed the threads very much. Maybe I will give
> > > irssi-otr a try in the near future. I hope I can help with testing
> > > while learning in this fine community.
> > > 
> > > For finch with otr integration I used [1] some months ago and it
> > > worked pretty well. Now I am stuck with a configure error.
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand what's going on.  Who added AM_PROG_AR to
> > configure.ac?  It looks like something in your autotools, but then the
> > rest of your autotools didn't recognize it?  Are you sure all of your
> > components are on a consistent version?
> > 
> >    - Ian
> 
> Thanks for your answer! The patch is by me, I added the lines after the
> libtool warnings/errors. The issue is the '--is-lightweight' option
> added by aclocal (part of automake) that is not recognized by the
> 'missing' script which is part of the repository. I assume it is
> outdated but I do not understand where the option exactly comes from.
> 
> Kardan
> 
> ./missing			scriptversion=2005-06-08.21
> ii  autotools-dev			  20130515.1
> ii  automake                              1:1.13.3-1
> ii  autoconf                              2.69-1
> ii  make                                  3.81-8.2 
> ii  devscripts                            2.13.2
> ii  libtool                               2.4.2-1.2
> ii  libltdl7:i386                         2.4.2-1.2
> ii  libltdl-dev:i386                      2.4.2-1.2

Ah, I see.  You'd have to ask hyc (the purple-otr maintainer), but I
think a simple expedient would just be to copy the "missing" script from
your version of automake (/usr/share/automake-*/missing).

   - Ian