On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:31 AM Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:a > > > Vincent Blondel (2020/01/20 15:10 +0100): > >> both ..._stdcxxx.m4 files are in the m4 subfolder ... is that not > >> enough ? > > > > As far as I know each .m4 file needs to be included explicitly. > > That does appear to be the case. For example, my configure.ac uses > acx_pthread.m4 and so the aclocal.m4 file includes this line > > m4_include([m4/acx_pthread.m4]) The `aclocal` program (which is run by autoreconf) is supposed to generate aclocal.m4, though. I strongly suspect the missing AC_INIT is the problem here. zw