Re: undefined macro

[John Darrington]

[ CCing to address@hidden as this is an automake issue ]

I had similar problems after upgrading to automake-1.10, which
(because it wasn't available in Debian etch) I installed in /usr/local
whereas all the m4 macros were in /usr.

The solution I used was to create a file
/usr/local/share/aclocal/dirlist containing the single line

 /usr/share/aclocal

I don't think this solution is particularly neat, but it worked for
me.

J'


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:08:30PM -0400, Jason Stover wrote:
     make -f Smake is failing to expand AM_INTL_SUBDIR.  I've been
     struggling with this problem for a while now.  My lack of
     understanding of aclocal and autoconf is hindering progress. So tell
     me if I have this straight:
     
     1. aclocal should copy the contents of m4/*.m4 and gl/m4/*.m4
        into configure.ac.
     2. autoconf should read the macros defined in configure.ac, run
        m4 on them, and place the results in configure.
     
     Is that right?
     
     Now here is the error:
     
     $ make -f Smake
     
     ...
     aclocal -I m4 -I gl/m4
     autoconf
     configure.ac:26: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
     m4/gettext.m4:362: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
     configure.ac:26: the top level
     configure:20777: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR
           If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
           See the Autoconf documentation.
     *** Error code 1
     
     ...the problem is that I can see the macro defined in the m4 directory:
     
     $ grep AM_INTL_SUBDIR m4/*.m4 
     m4/gettext.m4:    AC_REQUIRE([AM_INTL_SUBDIR])dnl
     m4/intl.m4:AC_DEFUN([AM_INTL_SUBDIR],
     
     ...so it looks like aclocal isn't including some necessary information in
     configure.ac. Is that right? 
     
     But before it choked, I saw this:
     
     ...
     Copying file m4/intl.m4
     ...
     
     Doesn't that mean aclocal copied the defun into configure.ac?
     
     A few details that might be relevant: I recently upgraded to the latest 
version
     of automake, and auto*, and aclocal. My system has BSD m4 in /usr/bin, and 
GNU
     m4 1.4.3 in /usr/local/bin.
     
     Any hints or section of relevant docs I should read? 
     
     -Jason
     
     
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