[oe] ctorrent recipes, a mistake of mine in the bugtracker and problems with autotools versions

[Elena of Valhalla]

Sorry for the double post: I found out that this ML would probably be
more appropriate after I sent this mail to the users mailing list and
didn't receive an answer

A few month ago I had posted on the bugtracker a recipe for the
enhanced version of ctorrent

http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4278

I have then found a few problems that can be easily fixed and another
one I need help with (the number 4 in this email)

=== PROBLEM 1 (distraction of mine) ===

The first problem is a mistake of mine: after a while I lost the first
bug (probably didn't receive the email when it was closed, and
couldn't find it when searching for open bugs), so I though I didn't
submit it and opened another bug

http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4506

can please someone mark it as a duplicate of the one above? I tried to
do so but it doesn't seem to work: do I need some permission?

=== PROBLEM 2 (with fix) ===

Then, I've tried to test the (modified) ctorrent recipes in the dev
tree, but I've found a couple of problems:

at first the ctorrent_3.3.1.bb recipe didn't build anything; that was
easily found to be a directory name problem, solved by adding

S = "${WORKDIR}/ctorrent-dnh${PV}"

=== PROBLEM 3 (with fix) ===

The ctcs_1.4.1.bb recipe had another problem caused by a missing " in  the
DESCRIPTION += This is the controller of the enhanced version"
              ^
line

=== PROBLEM 4 (help required) ===

The next problem seems to be related to the autotools version:
ctorrent dies in the do_configure task with the error:

aclocal.m4:14: error: this file was generated for autoconf dnh3.3.1.
You have another version of autoconf.  If you want to use that,
you should regenerate the build system entirely.

(full log attached - note that the same error happens also without icecc)

Here I'm at a loss: I've googled for a solution to this kinds of
error, but I couldn't find anything except for some hackish
workarounds

could somebody please point me to some related documentation, so that
I can try and finish fixing the recipe and then post working patches
on the bugtracker

thanks in advance

-- 
Elena of Valhalla

homepage: http://www.trueelena.org
email: elena.valhalla at gmail.com
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