Re: compiling errors

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Boyd,

> For the last few revisions of Binutils I continue to get error messages as I 
> attempt to compile the source code.  The error messages occur during the make 
> process and read as follows:
> 
>       configure.in:2092:error: possible undefined macro: AS_FOR_TARGET
>       make: *** [configure] Error 1
> 
> After the make command halts I usually attempt it again and after some 
> processing I get the next error:
> 
>       configure:error:libtool configure failed
>       make:***[configure-opcodes] Error 1
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

Try installing the (old) version 2.13 autoconf.  There appears to be
some problems with the current configuration files and later versions
of autoconf.  (Yes, these are being looked into/fixed).

Cheers
        Nick