From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 21:00:42 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5369AFEA.5010001@cs.ucla.edu> References: <868uqh4ust.fsf@gmail.com> <83tx95zffo.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4yh72qk.fsf@igel.home> <87tx956y9c.fsf@igel.home> <864n1459hp.fsf@gmail.com> <86tx92v4zi.fsf@gmail.com> <87eh06jqkl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <53699719.8030009@cs.ucla.edu> <834n12xpkl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399435281 6215 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2014 04:01:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 04:01:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, 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 06:01:14 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 1Wht2f-0001x8-LH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 06:01:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wht2f-0006CC-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 00:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wht2W-00069p-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 00:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wht2P-0005jb-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 00:01:04 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:40228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wht2I-0005gT-5O; Wed, 07 May 2014 00:00:50 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B80AA6003C; Tue, 6 May 2014 21:00:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GR7ukc5N+DtE; Tue, 6 May 2014 21:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 85330A60006; Tue, 6 May 2014 21:00:42 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <834n12xpkl.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:171737 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> This particular problem seems isolated to Windows developers > It will happen on any system that doesn't have pkg-config installed. I was referring to the problem that Andy Moreton reported. If=20 pkg-config isn't installed, autogen.sh should fail with this diagnostic: Your system seems to be missing the following tool(s): pkg-config (missing) Here the problem and fix is obvious, as =C3=93scar Fuentes already mentio= ned=20 when he mentioned this diagnostic: he simply installed pkg-config. In=20 contrast, Andy Moreton reported this diagnostic: Checking for pkg-config (need at least version 0.9.0)... ok Checking for pkg.m4... Can't locate Automake/Getopt.pm in @INC This is less obvious, but the problem can't be due simply to pkg-config=20 being absent, as pkg-config ran successfully. It must be something else. The Automake diagnostic could occur on any O.S. platform, but so far it=20 appears that the only people who've reported it are Microsoft Windows=20 developers. Perhaps the installation problem, whatever it is, is more=20 likely on that platform.