I thought I'd update the autoconf setup for xdiv to make it work on OS X. I did what I thought was needed, and managed to generate a non-working configure script. Where did I go wrong? Original tarball: http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xdvi/xdvi-22.85.tar.gz Modified sources: http://www.schemamania.org/xdvi-22.85/ Full output of "nohup sh -x ../configure > log" is in http://www.schemamania.org/xdvi-22.85/build/log Changes so far: rename configure.in to configure.ac rename Makefile.in to Makefile.am rename aclocal.m4 to acinclude.m4 remove acinclude.h update configure.ac, Makefile.am, and acinclude.h (diff below) run aclocal, autoreconf, autoconf, and automake Example result: $ (cd build/ && ../configure --x-include=/usr/X11/include --x-lib=/usr/X11/lib 2>&1) | tail checking vfork.h usability... no checking vfork.h presence... no checking for vfork.h... no checking for fork... yes checking for vfork... yes checking for working fork... yes checking for working vfork... (cached) yes checking for whether setsid() is allowed within vfork()... no checking for waitpid... yes ../configure: line 10559: syntax error: unexpected end of file I realize there are many sources of error, but it's difficult to know where to start. Details follow. Many thanks for your kind assistance. --jkl $ (autoconf --version; automake --version) | grep ^auto autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61 automake (GNU automake) 1.10 --- /tmp/xdvi-22.85/configure.in 2008-03-27 18:04:48.000000000 -0400 +++ configure.ac 2012-02-18 18:19:11.000000000 -0500 @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ dnl Process this file with xautoconf (not autoconf!) to produce a dnl configure script. See xautocnf.txt for details on xautoconf. dnl -AC_INIT(xdvi.c) +AC_INIT([xdvi], [22.85]) +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE +AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([xdvi.c]) AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h:config.hin) AC_PROG_CC @@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ AC_PATH_X AC_PATH_XTRA -AC_REQUIRE_X +dnl jkl AC_REQUIRE_X ac_save_cpp=$ac_cpp ac_cpp="$ac_cpp $X_CFLAGS" @@ -316,9 +318,10 @@ set default print command to CMD], DEFAULT_DVIPS_PATH, "dvips") -AC_SUBST(OPT_SRCS)dnl -AC_SUBST(OPT_OBJS)dnl +AC_SUBST(OPT_SRCS) +AC_SUBST(OPT_OBJS) dnl Done. dnl Makefile is automatically included, unless imake is in use. -AC_OUTPUT() +AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile) +AC_OUTPUT --- /tmp/xdvi-22.85/Makefile.in 2003-11-17 20:43:12.000000000 -0500 +++ Makefile.am 2012-02-18 18:05:33.000000000 -0500 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ X_CFLAGS=@X_CFLAGS@ LDFLAGS=@LDFLAGS@ -X_LDFLAGS=@LDFLAGS@ @x_linker_options@ @X_LIBS@ +LDFLAGS_XDVI=@LDFLAGS@ @x_linker_options@ @X_LIBS@ X_LIBS=@X_PRE_LIBS@ -lX11 @X_EXTRA_LIBS@ LIBS=@LIBS@ @MATH_LIB@ @@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ INSTALL=@INSTALL@ INSTALL_PROGRAM=@INSTALL_PROGRAM@ -INSTALL_DATA=@INSTALL_DATA@ +## jkl INSTALL_DATA=@INSTALL_DATA@ all: xdvi$(EXEEXT) xdvi.man xdvi$(EXEEXT): $(OBJS) - $(CC) $(X_LDFLAGS) -o xdvi $(OBJS) $(X_LIBS) $(LIBS) + $(CC) $(LDFLAGS_XDVI) -o xdvi $(OBJS) $(X_LIBS) $(LIBS) $(CHMOD) go+rx xdvi$(EXEEXT) .c.o: # The m4 stuff is all about quoting --- /tmp/xdvi-22.85/aclocal.m4 2003-11-17 20:40:08.000000000 -0500 +++ acinclude.m4 2012-02-18 17:48:19.000000000 -0500 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ dnl ### Determine integer type to use for bitmaps -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_C_BITMAP_TYPE, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_C_BITMAP_TYPE], [AC_MSG_CHECKING(for integer type to use in bitmaps) AC_CACHE_VAL(xdvi_cv_bitmap_type, [AC_TRY_RUN( @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dnl ### Check for whether the C compiler does string concatenation -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_CC_CONCAT, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_CC_CONCAT], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for whether the C compiler supports string concatenation], xdvi_cc_concat, [AC_TRY_COMPILE( @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ dnl ### Check for at-least-pretend Streams capability -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_SYS_STREAMS, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_SYS_STREAMS], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for stropts.h and isastream()], xdvi_cv_sys_streams, [AC_TRY_LINK( [#include <stropts.h> @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ dnl ### Check for poll() -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_FUNC_POLL, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_FUNC_POLL], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for poll.h and poll()], xdvi_cv_func_poll, [AC_TRY_LINK( [#include <poll.h> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ dnl ### Check for ulltostr() and for the long long type -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_FUNC_ULLTOSTR, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_FUNC_ULLTOSTR], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for the function ulltostr() and the long long type], xdvi_cv_func_ulltostr, [AC_TRY_LINK( @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ dnl ### Check for a C99-compatible implementation of (v)snprintf() -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_FUNC_C99_VSNPRINTF, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_FUNC_C99_VSNPRINTF], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for a c99-compatible implementation of (v)snprintf()], xdvi_cv_func_good_vsnprintf, [AC_TRY_RUN( @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ dnl ### Check for SunOS 4 -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_SYS_SUNOS_4, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_SYS_SUNOS_4], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for SunOS 4], xdvi_cv_sys_sunos_4, [case "`(uname -sr) 2>/dev/null`" in "SunOS 4."*) @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ dnl ### Check for certain broken versions of Linux -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_SYS_OLD_LINUX, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_SYS_OLD_LINUX], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for certain old versions of Linux], xdvi_cv_sys_old_linux, [case "`(uname -sr) 2>/dev/null`" in "Linux 2."[[01]].* | "Linux 2.2."[[0-8]] | "Linux 2.2."[[0-8]]-*) @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ dnl ### Process a string argument dnl XDVI_ARG_STRING(PACKAGE, HELP-STRING, VARIABLE, DEFAULT_VALUE) -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_ARG_STRING, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_ARG_STRING], [AC_ARG_WITH($1, [$2], [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED($3, "$withval") ], [AC_DEFINE($3, [$4]) ])]) @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ dnl ### Check for whether we need -lXpm -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_CHECK_XPM, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_CHECK_XPM], [if test -z "$imake"; then # Cygwin needs -lXpm to be linked in explicitly; yet on older (<4.2) # versions of XFree86, -lXpm exists, but is not needed. So we do two checks. @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ dnl ### Check for whether setsid() is allowed within vfork() dnl (Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther, 11/2003) is one O/S which does not allow this.) -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_FUNC_SETSID_IN_VFORK, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_FUNC_SETSID_IN_VFORK], [if test $ac_cv_func_vfork_works = yes; then AC_CACHE_CHECK([for whether setsid() is allowed within vfork()], xdvi_cv_setsid_in_vfork, @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ dnl ### Check if the --allow-multiple-definition linker flag is dnl ### available (assuming that we need to use it if it is) -AC_DEFUN(XDVI_LINKER_MULTIPLE_DEFNS, +AC_DEFUN([XDVI_LINKER_MULTIPLE_DEFNS], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether linker supports the --allow-multiple-definition flag], xdvi_linker_multiple_defns, xdvi_save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
