Robert,
I don't know the details of Maxima's build process, but it looks like
you need to run "automake" in the top-level directory. In the GNU
Autotools suite, that's the program that creates all the Makefile.in
files from the corresponding Makefile.am files.
Normally both automake and autoconf are run before preparing a source
code release, so that those who build from a source tarball don't need
either of those programs. This is important because there are sometimes
changes made to the Autotools that are not backward-compatible.
However, it is usually assumed that those who build directly from the
source code repository may need to run automake and autoconf before
running configure. Some programs include an "autogen.sh" script in
their top-level source directory which performs all of the necessary
pre-configure actions.
Best,
Mark
Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I was trying to build rpm's for the next release but I
> ran into an error. Looks like doc/info/de/Makefile.am isn't
> set up correctly or something like that.
[...]
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: doc/info/de/Makefile.in
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.19090 (%prep)
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.19090 (%prep)