Re: [Bug-gnubg] autoconf/autoheader/aclocal fails now (LONG)

[Jim Segrave]

On Sat 24 Sep 2005 (19:47 +0200), Christian Anthon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 03:07:32PM +0200, Jim Segrave wrote:
> > On Sat 24 Sep 2005 (12:39 +0100), Jon Kinsey wrote:
> > > Jon Kinsey wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Ok, who is a config expert?  I could "have a go", but I'd mostly be
> > > > guessing...
> > > 
> > > Ok, I've "had a go"... It may all work ok now (I'll try it on my linux
> > > box in a minute).  Anyone else who can try building would help.
> > > 
> > > Note that I've tidied things up a bit (remove myftgl.h and myftgl.c and
> > > limited the use of freetype to the font building).
> > 
> > With autoconf 2.59, autoheader 2.59 and aclocal 1.9, here's what
> > happens
> > 
> > address@hidden jes/gnubg$ autoconf 
> > address@hidden jes/gnubg$ autoheader 
> > address@hidden jes/gnubg$ aclocal -I m4
> > acinclude.m4:17: warning: underquoted definition of AC_DEFINE_DIR
> 
> This warning is probably without consequence.
> 
> > configure.in:582: warning: jm_GLIBC21 is m4_require'd but is not m4_defun'd
> 
> while this kind is not.
> 
> Either you are missing a particular library or it is caused by the gnubg
> .m4 files being much older than current libraries. You could try and
> find the relevant .m4 file in your own or in an older distribution and
> place them in the m4 subdir. Otherwise you have to figure out what the
> updated version of the auto-tools files would be.
> 
> good luck, Christian.

FreeBSD doesn't do anything when upgrading the port of aclocal to
create the link to the previous macro libraries. Updating this allows
autoreconf to completely regenerate the .in files and build gnubg from
the CVS source (with a slew of underquoting warnings and one warning
re:

autoreconf259: configure.in: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not
  AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden