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Asked: May 20, 20262026-05-20T21:21:01+00:00 2026-05-20T21:21:01+00:00

Trying to use automake/autoconf (versions 1.10 and 2.61, respectively). Everything is working OK, except

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Trying to use automake/autoconf (versions 1.10 and 2.61, respectively). Everything is working OK, except automake is not generating Makefile.in.

There are some warnings generated, but I don’t think they’re significant. However, the last line makes me think it’s generating something it shouldn’t and stopping there. There is a md5.cc and md5.c file in the project.

xanadu:fsd wwilliam$ automake --add-missing
configure.ac:46: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
/var/tmp/autoconf/autoconf-15~193/SRC/autoconf/lib/autoconf/specific.m4:421: AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is expanded from...
/var/tmp/autoconf/autoconf-15~193/SRC/autoconf/lib/autoconf/functions.m4:1677: AC_FUNC_STRNLEN is expanded from...
configure.ac:46: the top level
configure.ac:46: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
configure.ac:46: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_GNU_SOURCE
/var/tmp/autoconf/autoconf-15~193/SRC/autoconf/lib/autoconf/specific.m4:340: AC_GNU_SOURCE is expanded from...
configure.ac:46: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_GNU_SOURCE
configure.ac:46: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_AIX
/var/tmp/autoconf/autoconf-15~193/SRC/autoconf/lib/autoconf/specific.m4:455: AC_AIX is expanded from...
configure.ac:46: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_AIX
configure.ac:46: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_MINIX
/var/tmp/autoconf/autoconf-15~193/SRC/autoconf/lib/autoconf/specific.m4:474: AC_MINIX is expanded from...
configure.ac:46: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_MINIX
Makefile.am: object `md5.$(OBJEXT)' created by `md5.cc' and `md5.c'

Relevant contents of configure.ac:

AC_INIT(testapp, 1.1, user@blah.com)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(testapp,1.1)
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)

Contents of Makefile.am:

AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign

CFLAGS=-O2
bin_PROGRAMS = testapp
testapp_SOURCES = interface.cc interface.hh keymgr.cc keymgr.hh main.cc manage.cc manage.hh md5.c md5.cc md5.h mm.cc mm.hh mysqldb.cc mysqldb.h testapp.cc testapp.h

I’ve been googling the issue but haven’t found anything helpful.

Commands run were:

autoscan
mv configure.scan configure.ac
(edit configure.ac)
autoconf
(edit Makefile.am)
aclocal
automake --add-missing

Anyone seen anything like this before or know perhaps how I could turn on some additional debugging to troubleshoot the problem?

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    2026-05-20T21:21:02+00:00Added an answer on May 20, 2026 at 9:21 pm
    Makefile.am: object `md5.$(OBJEXT)' created by `md5.cc' and `md5.c'
    

    is an error message that causes Automake to abort. These two files would have to be compiled to md5.o, so that is a problem.

    Can you rename one of these two files?

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