i'm trying to install a c garbage collector on my mac. I have downloaded all necessary files (git, automake etc). I follow the instruction from the site http://www.hboehm.info/gc/. When i reach the command "automake --add-missing" i get the following message:
configure.ac: error: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal)
automake: error: no 'Makefile.am' found for any configure output
automake: Did you forget AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) in configure.ac?
Can someone help me? What am I doing wrong? Thank you!
Looks like you have the wrong version of automake -- make sure that you have the exact version specified by the software and not any later version, as later versions of automake are not generally backwards compatible.