Re: What is `aclocal' trying to tell me? ``error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion''

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Thomas Schwinge wrote on Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:23:34PM CEST:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:26:49PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Thomas Schwinge wrote on Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:51:01PM CEST:
> > > I used to use this successfully with GNU Automake 1.10, but
> > > now I'm on a system where only 1.9 is available, which i
> > > supossed to work and be supported as well.
> >
> > What says `m4 --version'?
>
> ``GNU M4 1.4.3'', that's the Ubuntu breezy 1.4.3-1 package.

Is breezy older?  They should upgrade the M4 version used for a
current Ubuntu version.

> > I usually see this with wrongly set parentheses, but cannot see this
here.  Show `aclocal-1.9 --force --verbose' output, please.
>
> `out.gz' is attached.

Not really.  ;-)

* Thomas Schwinge wrote on Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:42:54PM CEST:
>
> After having upgraded M4, I upgraded Autoconf.  No improvement.
> Finally, I upgraded Automake.  Now it works.  But why?  All this is
supposed to be compatible to Automake 1.9, I think?

Yes.  No clue, I cannot reproduce this with 1.9.6/2.59.

Cheers,
Ralf