On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:05, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> wrote: > Are the environment variables $EMACS or $TEST_EMACS set? If yes, please > let the user retry after unsetting them. If the error persists, please > post the output of > make SHELL='/bin/sh -x' > > (adjust to the shell used if necessary). Just following up on this, turns out the user had created alias that started Aquamacs when the emacs command was run: alias emacs='open -a /Applications/Aquamacs.app' unsetting the alias enabled autoconf to build correctly. Thanks for the help with this issue. Cheers Adam _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf