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

[Marco van Tol]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:24:59PM +0200, Jim Segrave wrote:
> 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

Jim, install these, set your path to /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin and see if
that helps: (They will at least get you 'autoconf' as opposed to
'autoconf<version>')

/usr/ports/devel/gnu-autoconf
/usr/ports/devel/gnu-libtool
/usr/ports/devel/gnu-automake

If this works, you can set a 'depends' flag (or something) in the port to
set it to depend on a certain version or higher I believe.

HTH, :)

Marco

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