From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 11:25:02 +0200 Message-ID: <536758EE.7030606@gmx.at> References: <868uqh4ust.fsf@gmail.com> <83tx95zffo.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3a0zs5r.fsf@gnu.org> <53673DF6.1080502@gmx.at> <8361lkzjfa.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399414109 988 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2014 22:08:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 22:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 00:08:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WhnSb-0004TT-Eb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 00:03:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhF9U-00034f-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 05:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52219) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhF9I-0002zb-EA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 05:25:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhF9C-0008B7-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 05:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:49965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhF95-00089S-RG; Mon, 05 May 2014 05:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.47.251.66] ([62.47.251.66]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LsTge-1WsKuC0yfA-0121ha; Mon, 05 May 2014 11:25:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: <8361lkzjfa.fsf@gnu.org> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:eadHpKRfv7FiBSagOof78nNqOXdwmmMjyW68vba7aNq7WNatAa7 2Eg1jSFLN01xec3OcIYELKn/hRFyf+HeAYcEQ92y0MudbhDntmICnn4KvxQfzPZxO2qWI4L edSwc8a5ncWWgxjUgZWTsMUdaJRth2SjMW3nzz9KkfRvwnGO0nxN/fs6/+T34nba9/8NfJq C/u1qV88L43y+k7sXoumA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.18 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171722 Archived-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