Thank for your help. Here is my output: ]# autoconf --verbose && ./configure autoconf: running /usr/bin/autom4te --verbose --language=autoconf --output=configure configure.ac autom4te: the trace request object is: autom4te: $VAR1 = bless( [ autom4te: '0', autom4te: 0, autom4te: [ autom4te: '/usr/share/autoconf' autom4te: ], autom4te: [ autom4te: '/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f', autom4te: 'configure.ac' autom4te: ], autom4te: { autom4te: 'm4_pattern_forbid' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_TYPE_OFF_T' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_C_VOLATILE' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_STAT' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_HEADER_TIME' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_WAIT3' => 1, autom4te: 'AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_STRUCT_TM' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_LSTAT' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_TYPE_MODE_T' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_STRTOD' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CHECK_HEADERS' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_STRNLEN' => 1, autom4te: 'm4_sinclude' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_CXX' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PATH_X' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_AWK' => 1, autom4te: '_m4_warn' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_HEADER_STDC' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_HEADER_MAJOR' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_LIBSOURCE' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_TYPE_SIGNAL' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_TYPE_UID_T' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_MAKE_SET' => 1, autom4te: 'sinclude' => 1, autom4te: 'm4_pattern_allow' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_DEFINE_TRACE_LITERAL' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_CC' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_FORK' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_VPRINTF' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_STRCOLL' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_YACC' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_INIT' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_CHOWN' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_SUBST' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_ALLOCA' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CANONICAL_HOST' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_GETPGRP' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_RANLIB' => 1, autom4te: 'AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_SETPGRP' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_MMAP' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_REALLOC' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_TYPE_SIZE_T' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_LINKS' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CHECK_TYPES' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CHECK_MEMBERS' => 1, autom4te: 'AM_MAINTAINER_MODE' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_STRFTIME' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_HEADER_STAT' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_C_INLINE' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_CPP' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_TYPE_PID_T' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_C_CONST' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_LEX' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_FILES' => 1, autom4te: 'include' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_INSTALL' => 1, autom4te: 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_OBSTACK' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CHECK_LIB' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_MALLOC' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG' => 1, autom4te: 'AH_OUTPUT' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_FSEEKO' => 1, autom4te: 'AM_PROG_CC_C_O' => 1, autom4te: 'AM_CONDITIONAL' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_MKTIME' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_FUNC_MEMCMP' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_PROG_LN_S' => 1, autom4te: 'm4_include' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_HEADER_DIRENT' => 1, autom4te: 'AC_CHECK_FUNCS' => 1 autom4te: } autom4te: ], 'Autom4te::Request' ); autom4te: running: /usr/bin/m4 --nesting-limit=1024 --include=/usr/share/autoconf --debug=aflq --fatal-warning --error-output=autom4te.cache/traces.0t --trace=AC_CANONICAL_HOST --trace=AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM --trace=AC_CHECK_FUNCS --trace=AC_CHECK_HEADERS --trace=AC_CHECK_LIB --trace=AC_CHECK_MEMBERS --trace=AC_CHECK_TYPES --trace=AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR --trace=AC_CONFIG_FILES --trace=AC_CONFIG_HEADERS --trace=AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR --trace=AC_CONFIG_LINKS --trace=AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS --trace=AC_C_CONST --trace=AC_C_INLINE --trace=AC_C_VOLATILE --trace=AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST --trace=AC_DEFINE_TRACE_LITERAL --trace=AC_FUNC_ALLOCA --trace=AC_FUNC_CHOWN --trace=AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID --trace=AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE --trace=AC_FUNC_FORK --trace=AC_FUNC_FSEEKO --trace=AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS --trace=AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG --trace=AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT --trace=AC_FUNC_GETPGRP --trace=AC_FUNC_LSTAT --trace=AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK --trace=AC_FUNC_MALLOC --trace=AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC --trace=AC_FUNC_MEMCMP --trace=AC_FUNC_MKTIME --trace=AC_FUNC_MMAP --trace=AC_FUNC_OBSTACK --trace=AC_FUNC_REALLOC --trace=AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES --trace=AC_FUNC_SETPGRP --trace=AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED --trace=AC_FUNC_STAT --trace=AC_FUNC_STRCOLL --trace=AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R --trace=AC_FUNC_STRFTIME --trace=AC_FUNC_STRNLEN --trace=AC_FUNC_STRTOD --trace=AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL --trace=AC_FUNC_VPRINTF --trace=AC_FUNC_WAIT3 --trace=AC_HEADER_DIRENT --trace=AC_HEADER_MAJOR --trace=AC_HEADER_STAT --trace=AC_HEADER_STDC --trace=AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT --trace=AC_HEADER_TIME --trace=AC_INIT --trace=AC_LIBSOURCE --trace=AC_PATH_X --trace=AC_PROG_AWK --trace=AC_PROG_CC --trace=AC_PROG_CPP --trace=AC_PROG_CXX --trace=AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL --trace=AC_PROG_INSTALL --trace=AC_PROG_LEX --trace=AC_PROG_LIBTOOL --trace=AC_PROG_LN_S --trace=AC_PROG_MAKE_SET --trace=AC_PROG_RANLIB --trace=AC_PROG_YACC --trace=AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH --trace=AC_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS --trace=AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE --trace=AC_STRUCT_TM --trace=AC_SUBST --trace=AC_TYPE_MODE_T --trace=AC_TYPE_OFF_T --trace=AC_TYPE_PID_T --trace=AC_TYPE_SIGNAL --trace=AC_TYPE_SIZE_T --trace=AC_TYPE_UID_T --trace=AH_OUTPUT --trace=AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION --trace=AM_CONDITIONAL --trace=AM_GNU_GETTEXT --trace=AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE --trace=AM_MAINTAINER_MODE --trace=AM_PROG_CC_C_O --trace=_m4_warn --trace=include --trace=m4_include --trace=m4_pattern_allow --trace=m4_pattern_forbid --trace=m4_sinclude --trace=sinclude --reload-state=/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f configure.ac </dev/null >autom4te.cache/output.0t autom4te: formatting traces for `/tmp/am4tHV1964/warnings': _m4_warn autom4te: reading /tmp/am4tHV1964/warnings autom4te: creating configure autom4te: formatting traces for `/tmp/am4tHV1964/patterns': m4_pattern_allow, m4_pattern_forbid autom4te: forbidden tokens: ^_?A[CHUM]_|_AC_|^LIBOBJS$|^_?m4_|^dnl$|^_?AS_ autom4te: forbidden token : ^LIBOBJS$ => do not use LIBOBJS directly, use AC_LIBOBJ (see section `AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS' autom4te: allowed tokens: ^AS_FLAGS$ yes configure: creating ./config.status On 8/17/07, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello ying, > > * ying lcs wrote on Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:07:49AM CEST: > > On 8/16/07, Jason Curl <jcurlnews@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 > > Please post a URL to the VLC tarball/sources you are trying to build. > > It looks like your autotools installation is somewhat messed up, but I'm > not yet sure in what way. So please try this: create a new directory, > in it create a configure.ac file containing the lines > AC_INIT > AS_IF([:], [echo yes]) > AC_OUTPUT > > then run > autoconf --verbose && ./configure > > Please post all output if it does not contain "yes" near the end. > > > > > configure.ac:27: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF > > Thanks, > Ralf > > _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf