this is the run with warnings ... $ autoreconf --verbose --force --install --warnings=all autoreconf-2.69: Entering directory `.' autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf-2.69: running: aclocal --force --warnings=all ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS} -I m4 autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: tracing configure.ac:13: warning: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete. configure.ac:13: You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead. aclocal.m4:730: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from... configure.ac:13: the top level configure.ac:23: warning: The macro `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is obsolete. configure.ac:23: You should run autoupdate. m4/libtool.m4:99: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is expanded from... configure.ac:23: the top level autoreconf-2.69: running: libtoolize --copy --force libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'. libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'. libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4' autoreconf-2.69: running: /usr/bin/autoconf-2.69 --force --warnings=all configure.ac:13: warning: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete. configure.ac:13: You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead. aclocal.m4:730: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from... configure.ac:13: the top level configure.ac:23: warning: The macro `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is obsolete. configure.ac:23: You should run autoupdate. m4/libtool.m4:99: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is expanded from... configure.ac:23: the top level autoreconf-2.69: running: /usr/bin/autoheader-2.69 --force --warnings=all autoreconf-2.69: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing --warnings=all configure.ac:18: installing './compile' configure.ac:14: installing './missing' Makefile.am: installing './depcomp' autoreconf-2.69: Leaving directory `.' On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 2:47 PM Sébastien Hinderer < Sebastien.Hinderer@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi vincent, > > I'm all but an autoconf expert. Is it on purpose that you didn't call > AC_INIT at the beginningof your autoconf script? > > Did you try running autoconf and automake with warnings enable to see > whether they find something suspicious in your code? > > Best wishes, > > Sébastien. > >