Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > Why do you cite my message above?  Is your problem related to what I
 > wrote, and if so, how?

You seem to confirm a relation below.

 >> cd . && aclocal -I m4
 >> cd . && autoconf
 >> configure.ac:70: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_ECHO
 >>         If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
 >>         See the Autoconf documentation.
 >> [...]
 >>
 >> What do I have to do?
 >
 > What did you do since the last time this worked for you?

bzr update

 > Line 70 of
 > configure.ac, and several dozen lines around it, didn't change since
 > last August, so something else must have happened to cause this.

I supposed so.

 > AS_ECHO is defined by m4sh.m4, which is part of the MSYS Autoconf
 > package you find on the ezwinports site.  Are you using that package?
 > Do you have that file in share/autoconf/m4sugar/ in your MSYS
 > installation?

Yes.  As c:\Programme\MinGW\msys\1.0\share\autoconf\m4sugar\m4sh.m4

 >> configure.ac:1351: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
 >> configure.ac:1354: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CHECK_MODULES
 >> configure.ac:1363: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_default
 >> configure.ac:2293: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CONFIG
 >
 > These are because of the missing pkg.m4 file, I think.

And that's why I'm asking for advice in this thread.

 > See my advice
 > to Juanma earlier in this thread.

Which advice?  Is there any way to work around this without installing
pkg-config?  According to http://www.mingw.org/wiki/FAQ this would mean
I'd have to install the GTK-runtime first which I don't have either.

Thanks, martin