-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Steven Zimmer on 2/29/2008 4:11 PM: Hello Steven, | I'm having some problems with Autoconf. I'm not sure if it's syntax | related or i'm missing some packages. I'm attempting to build gEdit on | Windows and i've hit a bit of a road block here is there that is | happening: I think you are hitting a combination of problems... | | Running /usr/local/bin/aclocal-1.10... | acinclude.m4:65: the serial number must appear before any macro definition | acinclude.m4:90: the serial number must appear before any macro definition These are just warnings, but the fix is to reorder the '#serial' lines in acinclude.m4 to appear before any AC_DEFUN. | m4/python.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of AM_CHECK_PYMOD | m4/python.m4:4: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' | m4/python.m4:4: or see | http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal This is a bug in the package that provided AM_CHECK_PYMOD. I'm not sure which package that is (the AM_* namespace was meant to imply automake, but many third-party packages pollute automake's namespace). But it can likewise be fixed by following the advice in the manual; basically, find which file does "AC_DEFUN(AM_CHECK_PYMOD,..." and change it to "AC_DEFUN([AM_CHECK_PYMOD],..." | Running /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.61... | configure.ac:205: warning: AM_PATH_PYTHON is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd | m4/python.m4:42: AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS is expanded from... | configure.ac:205: the top level That could either be fallout from the broken AM_CHECK_PYMOD macro definition, or because you are missing a development package that provides the AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS (again, someone stepped on the automake namespace). | configure.ac:24: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE | If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. | See the Autoconf documentation. This one sounds like you don't have auotmake installed properly. | configure.ac:26: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE | configure.ac:28: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC And this one sounds like you don't have libtool installed properly (another case of namespace pollution, but at least newer versions of libtool have renamed it to the LT_ namespace). | here is the the first 100 lines of the configure.ac file: | | AC_PREREQ(2.59) Your subject line is misleading then. Your file won't work without at least autoconf 2.59 (not 2.56)... | | AC_DEFINE(GEDIT_MAJOR_VERSION, gedit_major_version, [Gedit major version]) Please report this underquotation bug to the gedit package - that should be: AC_DEFINE([GEDIT_MAJOR_VERSION],...) - -- 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 iD8DBQFHyUov84KuGfSFAYARAhu4AJ9dyOE0xzkGroFrtXGFpUE8HZidDQCgnAit mcLi6rAwI/Hb7nXqquNeZGs= =s7dA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
