Re: [PROBLEM] Building GNU Classpath on Darwin

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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Mark Wielaard <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Pekka,
>
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 12:28 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> I'm trying to build GNU Classpath CVS HEAD on Mac OS X 10.6.7. I
>> followed these instructions to satisfy the autoconf 2.65 requirement:
>>
>> http://www.mattvsworld.com/blog/2010/02/install-the-latest-autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-10-6/
>>
>> However, when I try to run 'autogen.sh' I get the following error:
>>
>> $ sh autogen.sh
>> configure.ac:503: warning: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX is m4_require'd but
>> not m4_defun'd
>> m4/iconv.m4:11: AM_ICONV_LINKFLAGS_BODY is expanded from...
>> m4/iconv.m4:22: AM_ICONV_LINK is expanded from...
>> m4/iconv.m4:77: AM_ICONV is expanded from...
>> configure.ac:503: the top level
> [...]
>> autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
>>
>> Any ideas what's going wrong here?
>
> I am not sure, but you might be missing gettext, and our configure picks
> up the local m4/iconv.m4. We don't actually use gettext, but we try to
> use iconv. See the installation instructions at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ which has a little section on
> iconv.m4. So try installing gettext, or find an updated version of the
> libiconv iconv.m4 and install that under the classpath/m4/ directory.
> Please let us know if that helps or not.

I had gettext installed but I had to do 'brew link' on it:

  sudo brew link gettext

for it to become visible in PATH. After I did that, autogen.sh started
working. I wonder why the error message is so darn cryptic, though...
;-)

Anyway, thanks!



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