Re: configure.ac:27: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF

[ying lcs]

On 8/16/07, Jason Curl <address@hidden> wrote:
> ying lcs wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running '.bootstrap' of VLC source under RHEL4.  But I am getting
> > the following error:
> >
> > I have 'automake 1.9.6' 'autoconf 2.61' 'aclocal 1.9.6' 'm4 1.4.8' in
> > my system:
> >
> I've got autoconf-2.61, libtool-1.5.24, automake-1.10 and it works for
> my on SuSE 10.0

Were you able to run '.bootstrap' of vlc successfully?


> > Copying file po/Makevars.template
> > + rm -f po/Makevars.template
> > + aclocal-1.9 -I /root/build-bin/share/aclocal-1.9 -I
> > /root/build-bin/share/aclocal -I /root/build-bin/share/autoconf -I
> > /root/video-dep-bin/share/aclocal -I m4
> > + autoconf
> > configure.ac:1: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl
> >      If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> > m4_pattern_allow.
> >      See the Autoconf documentation.
> >
> This line itself is pretty suspicious. dnl is usually used for comments.
> > configure.ac:27: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF
> > configure.ac:41: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
> > configure.ac:78: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
> > configure.ac:81: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
> > configure.ac:181: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ARG_ENABLE
> > configure.ac:379: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_LIB
> > configure.ac:449: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS
> > configure.ac:2089: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROG
> > configure.ac:5094: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROGS
> >
> > Can someone please help me about how/what can i do to fix my problem?
> >
> Seeing as you're trying to compile somebody else's program and not
> developing your own package, the VLC group may be able to help you faster.

>

I tried. But they don't know the answer either.


> I'd probably open the ./configure.ac file and check for obvious errors,
> try to debug it and do 'autoreconf' on it to figure out where the
> problems are. Check the autoconf manual here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/
>
> Check also that your autotools are installed correctly.

how can i check that?


>
> But if all you're trying to do is to compile the software for RHEL4,
> just do a "./configure; make".
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
>
>
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