Re: [Bug-gnubg] New feature: direction arrow

[Holger]

At 11:54 26.05.2003 +0000, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 12:45:17PM +0200, Holger wrote
> >
> > I've just tried to do it on Solaris. But it fails. It doesn't find
> > AM_PATH_LIBART. Do I have to copy the contents of libart.m4 or should it
> > find it by itself?
>
> You may have to run aclocal -I m4 first.

Still the same and a few unrelated warnings/errors.

# aclocal -I m4
aclocal: m4/gettext.m4: 57: duplicated macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT'
aclocal: m4/gettext.m4: 1458: duplicated macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST'
aclocal: m4/gettext.m4: 1600: duplicated macro `AM_LC_MESSAGES'
aclocal: m4/gtk.m4: 7: duplicated macro `AM_PATH_GTK'
# autoconf
configure.in:224: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_LIBART
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

> > Does any particular line in Makefile.am generate this list? Or is it some
> > automatism that always produces this depending on what macros are found?
>
> An AC_SUBST will create a variable in Makefile.in. For example,
>
> AC_SUBST(GTK_LIBS)    (found in m4/gtk-2.0.m4)
>
> Other macro like AC_CHECK_PROG will also create variables, e.g.,
>
> AC_CHECK_PROG(GNUPLOT, gnuplot, gnuplot)    (found in configure.in)

[Manual reference snipped]

I see, thank you. For further understanding I'll definitely have to read 
the manual. If they wouldn't be all that long. ;)

Regards,

        Holger