From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 18:03:35 +0300 Message-ID: <8338gly6k8.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <5369AFEA.5010001@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399475040 16609 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2014 15:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 15:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 17:03:52 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 1Wi3Nm-0004zA-Gw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 17:03:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi3Nm-0002Ue-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 11:03:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi3Nf-0002RJ-6b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 11:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi3NZ-0006aB-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 11:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:33261) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi3NZ-0006Zs-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 11:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N5700300LHO9F00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 18:03:27 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N57002IPLTPXIB0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 07 May 2014 18:03:26 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5369AFEA.5010001@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:171751 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 21:00:42 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: stephen@xemacs.org, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.o= rg >=20 > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> This particular problem seems isolated to Windows developers > > It will happen on any system that doesn't have pkg-config install= ed. >=20 > I was referring to the problem that Andy Moreton reported. If=20 > pkg-config isn't installed, autogen.sh should fail with this diagno= stic: >=20 > Your system seems to be missing the following tool(s): > pkg-config (missing) Yes, but I don't normally run autogen.sh, I run "make" (and tell othe= r to do that as well). > Here the problem and fix is obvious, as =C3=93scar Fuentes already = mentioned=20 > when he mentioned this diagnostic: he simply installed pkg-config. = In=20 > contrast, Andy Moreton reported this diagnostic: >=20 > Checking for pkg-config (need at least version 0.9.0)... > ok > Checking for pkg.m4... > Can't locate Automake/Getopt.pm in @INC >=20 > This is less obvious, but the problem can't be due simply to pkg-co= nfig=20 > being absent, as pkg-config ran successfully. It must be something= else. The diagnostic about Getopt.pm is bogus (might be an Automake bug), the real problem is that pkg.m4 is not where it should be. > The Automake diagnostic could occur on any O.S. platform, but so fa= r it=20 > appears that the only people who've reported it are Microsoft Windo= ws=20 > developers. I suspect that's because (a) the rest use GNU/Linux, and (b) have pkg-config installed. The latter is why I didn't see any problems on Windows.