[GRASS5] config error 'ar' on OS X

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I am getting a configure error I don't recognize after cvs up today. The error refers to 'ar'. What is ar?

checking for ar... ar
./configure: line 2192: syntax error near unexpected token `<<<'
./configure: line 2192: `<<<<<<< configure'

Thanks,

Kirk

Kirk R. Wythers, Research Fellow
Dept. of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota
1530 Cleveland Ave N
Saint Paul, MN 55108
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email: kwythers@umn.edu

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On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:02:11PM -0500, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:

I am getting a configure error I don't recognize after cvs up today.
The error refers to 'ar'. What is ar?

checking for ar... ar
./configure: line 2192: syntax error near unexpected token `<<<'
./configure: line 2192: `<<<<<<< configure'

Thanks,

Kirk,

this looks like a CVS conflict in the file.
Did you run autoconf? You will have to check the output
of

cvs up configure

If unexpected, delete the file and fetch it again (all configure
changes should be generally made in configure.in, if this applies
here).

good luck

Markus

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On Oct 7, 2005, at 4:08 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

Kirk,

this looks like a CVS conflict in the file.
Did you run autoconf? You will have to check the output
of

cvs up configure

If unexpected, delete the file and fetch it again (all configure
changes should be generally made in configure.in, if this applies
here).

good luck

Markus

Thanks Markus, cvs up configure yields:

C configure

Are you suggesting that I delete the configure file, run autoconfig to re-crreate configure, then re-run cvs up -dP?

Kirk

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Kirk R. Wythers wrote:

> this looks like a CVS conflict in the file.
> Did you run autoconf? You will have to check the output
> of
>
> cvs up configure
>
> If unexpected, delete the file and fetch it again (all configure
> changes should be generally made in configure.in, if this applies

Thanks Markus, cvs up configure yields:

C configure

Are you suggesting that I delete the configure file, run autoconfig
to re-crreate configure, then re-run cvs up -dP?

Just delete the configure file then run "cvs up -dP". If you run
autoconf yourself, you'll get a conflict.

Changes to configure.in can usually be merged automatically, but the
same doesn't apply to configure. Apart from anything else, any change
will throw off the line numbers.

--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>