On Jan 28, 2008 8:18 PM, Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Paulo J. Matos on 1/28/2008 1:06 PM: > | Hi all, > | > | I never had this issue and I can't understand the problem. I'm getting > | the following in a certain project: > | $ autoreconf > | /usr/share/aclocal/soup.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of > AM_PATH_SOUP > | /usr/share/aclocal/soup.m4:7: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' > | /usr/share/aclocal/soup.m4:7: or see > | http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal > > Did you write AM_PATH_SOUP, or did it come as part of some other package? > ~ If the latter, then forward this mail on to the author of that file, and > point them to the link in the error message. Meanwhile, you can make the > warning go away by writing: > > AC_DEFINE([AM_PATH_SOUP], > ... > Thanks but this is not mine. It seems to be a soup project: net-libs/soup-0.7.11-r1 which owns the file. > rather than the current > AC_DEFINE(AM_PATH_SOUP, > ... > > Also, it is generally a bad idea for macros to use someone else's > namespace - the AM_* namespace is primarily for automake, but automake > does not own the AM_PATH_SOUP macro. Whoever wrote the macro should > consider renaming it into a different, distinct namespace. > I'll try to contact the author. > | acinclude.m4:6593: the serial number must appear before any macro definition > > This warning means that the file contains a line that looks somewhat like > # serial nnn > but that there were instances of AC_DEFINE prior to the serial number. To > avoid this warning, move the serial number line up to the front of the > file, before any macros are defined. > It wasn't me who created the file, why should I manually edit it? > | autom4te-2.61: cannot open configure: Permission denied > | autoreconf-2.61: /usr/bin/autoconf-2.61 failed with exit status: 1 > | > | What could be behind this? > > That is your actual error (the others were just warnings). What are the > permissions on configure (if it exists), and on the directory where it is > supposed to be created? Could it be that you have a read-only source > directory? > Nope, I don't understand. Everything is rw. Probably I'll try to delete all the and create them again. > - -- > Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! > > Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) > Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHnjiW84KuGfSFAYARAtsIAKCqJlFE79bRqA1hv6JMAxR44vJN8QCdGRJH > lYIg+wq+F4GLBBksfJP1RdE= > =yqKY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm PhD Student @ ECS University of Southampton, UK _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
