unable to complete cross-building on fedora 20

[Lakshman]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>> 1) I tried to build libdivecomputer as mentioned in the lines 194-200
>> of "INSTALL" file, when I executed line 198 (i.e. mingw32-configure
>> --disable-shared) I got the following error
>>
>> "/usr/bin/mingw32-configure: line 68: ../configure: No such file or directory"
>>
>> Since, I was not used to writing configure scripts, after some
>> googling I did the following
>>
>> "autoconf configure.ac" hoping that this will generate "configure"
>> script, but this resulted in the following error:
>>
>> configure.ac:21: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>>       See the Autoconf documentation.
>> configure.ac:67: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
>>
>> Am I going in a wrong direction?
>
> try autoreconf --install it's somewhere in the libdivecomputer docs. I
> thought I had all the steps in the README :-(
>
> that creates the missing pieces and then mingw32-configure will work
>
Thanks Dirk, that worked. I was missing some libraries, had to install
automake, libtool, then autoreconf worked and the rest. Now, I have to
figure out the error while building marble and libgit2.

Thank you,
Lakshman