On 8/16/07, Jason Curl <jcurlnews@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > ying lcs wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running '.bootstrap' of VLC source under RHEL4. But I am getting > > the following error: > > > > I have 'automake 1.9.6' 'autoconf 2.61' 'aclocal 1.9.6' 'm4 1.4.8' in > > my system: > > > I've got autoconf-2.61, libtool-1.5.24, automake-1.10 and it works for > my on SuSE 10.0 Were you able to run '.bootstrap' of vlc successfully? > > Copying file po/Makevars.template > > + rm -f po/Makevars.template > > + aclocal-1.9 -I /root/build-bin/share/aclocal-1.9 -I > > /root/build-bin/share/aclocal -I /root/build-bin/share/autoconf -I > > /root/video-dep-bin/share/aclocal -I m4 > > + autoconf > > configure.ac:1: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl > > If this token and others are legitimate, please use > > m4_pattern_allow. > > See the Autoconf documentation. > > > This line itself is pretty suspicious. dnl is usually used for comments. > > configure.ac:27: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF > > configure.ac:41: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE > > configure.ac:78: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR > > configure.ac:81: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN > > configure.ac:181: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ARG_ENABLE > > configure.ac:379: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_LIB > > configure.ac:449: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS > > configure.ac:2089: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROG > > configure.ac:5094: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROGS > > > > Can someone please help me about how/what can i do to fix my problem? > > > Seeing as you're trying to compile somebody else's program and not > developing your own package, the VLC group may be able to help you faster. > I tried. But they don't know the answer either. > I'd probably open the ./configure.ac file and check for obvious errors, > try to debug it and do 'autoreconf' on it to figure out where the > problems are. Check the autoconf manual here: > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/ > > Check also that your autotools are installed correctly. how can i check that? > > But if all you're trying to do is to compile the software for RHEL4, > just do a "./configure; make". > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf > _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
