Re: Configure.in migration facility

[John Poltorak]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:17:30PM +0200, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> On 03 Sep 2001 11:04:37 +0100, John Poltorak wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:22:05PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
> > > >>>>> "John" == John Poltorak <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > > To avoid needing two versions of Autoconf installed, is there anything 
> > > > like a migration facility which would convert old configure.in files to 
> > > > a 
> > > > format suitable for v2.50? Or alternatively, will v2.50+ be updated to 
> > > > provide backward compatibility?
> > > 
> > > You can run autoupdate that comes with autoconf 2.50+.
> > 
> > I've just tried running autoupdate using the configure.in from grep 2.4.2, 
> > but after conversion, I get these errors from autoconf:-
> > 
> > ./aclocal.m4:470: error: m4_defn: undefined: _m4_divert_diversion
> > acoldnames.m4:86: AM_PROG_INSTALL is expanded from...
> > ./aclocal.m4:470: the top level
> > 
> > 
> > I don't get these errors when using autoconf 2.13.
> > 
> > Any ideas about what is missing?
> > 
> Yes - a recent automake.  Automake defines macros that are now also
> defined by autoconf.  Older versions of automake defined them without
> quoting their names, leading to this problem.
> You'll want to install either automake 1.5 or the last 1.4 patch release
> (1.4-p6, I think), and then re-run aclocal.


The most recent version available to me is 1.4-p4. Is there any chance of 
this working? Is there anything like a 'success' msg to look out for?


-- 
John