Hi edsiper and all. yep it was the automake version, :). thanks for the support.. <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2007 8:03 PM, Eduardo Silva <<a href="mailto:edsiper@gmail.com">edsiper@gmail.com </a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">uhm, That's weird, <a href="http://Makefile.in" target="_blank">Makefile.in </a> is generated by automake using the <a href="http://Makefile.am" target="_blank">Makefile.am</a> file, do u have the automake tools installed ??? look at here in your configure output: "<a href="http://configure.ac:8" target="_blank"> configure.ac:8</a>: require Automake 1.9, but have 1.7.9" can u upgrade to automake 1.9 and try again ? cheers. Eduardo <a href="http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl" target="_blank">http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl </a> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Dec 17, 2007 9:59 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <<a href="mailto:dirakx@gmail.com">dirakx@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi bernardo, > > this is the complete error > > <a href="http://pastebin.com/m1fafe519" target="_blank">http://pastebin.com/m1fafe519</a> > > > thanks for your colaboration :). > > > On Dec 17, 2007 4:00 AM, Bernardo Innocenti < <a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> wrote: > > > > Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: > > > > > > > im trying to build sugar and im getting this autogen error  in some of > > > the modules.. > > > > > > config.status: error: cannot find input file: <a href="http://Makefile.in" target="_blank">Makefile.in</a> > > > <<a href="http://Makefile.in" target="_blank"> http://Makefile.in</a>> > > > > > *** error during stage configure of sugar-base: ########## Error running > > > ./autogen.sh --prefix  $MYPATH/sugar-jhbuild/build   *** [1/1] > > > > If <a href="http://Makefile.in" target="_blank">Makefile.in</a> does not exist, it usually means that > > automake failed earlier. > > > > Please post a longer log with more context. > > > > -- > >  \___/ > >  |___|   Bernardo Innocenti - <a href="http://www.codewiz.org/" target="_blank">http://www.codewiz.org/</a> > >  \___\  One Laptop Per Child - <a href="http://www.laptop.org/" target="_blank"> http://www.laptop.org/</a> > > > > > > > -- > Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero > One Laptop Per Child > <a href="mailto:rafael@laptop.org">rafael@laptop.org</a> </div> </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar@lists.laptop.org">Sugar@lists.laptop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar" target="_blank"> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar</a> > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar@lists.laptop.org">Sugar@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar" target="_blank"> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero One Laptop Per Child <a href="mailto:rafael@laptop.org">rafael@laptop.org</a>