From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Purcell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8342: 24.0.50; Emacs HEAD cannot build with OS X standard autoconf Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:29:23 +0000 Message-ID: <9AB28351-B84F-406E-9D0D-5F2ED8D3498E@sanityinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301060259 22442 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 13:37:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:37:39 +0000 (UTC) To: 8342@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 14:37:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q37Cc-0001QC-Lc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:37:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q37CY-0005Le-IP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36713 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q37CT-0005LZ-Cc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:37:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q37CS-0003qP-1Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:37:13 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q37CR-0003qL-V0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q375X-0003cw-2E; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:30:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Steve Purcell Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 8342 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.130105979313910 (code B ref -1); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Mar 2011 13:29:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q375N-0003cJ-1e for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:29:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q375L-0003c7-6b for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q375C-0002Dn-73 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]:58126) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q375C-0002Dh-5F for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53265 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3758-0002ev-3W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3751-0002Cn-H2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from h1189701.stratoserver.net ([85.214.32.38]:37985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3751-00028d-CD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mandala.home (host81-155-55-98.range81-155.btcentralplus.com [81.155.55.98]) by h1189701.stratoserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8A565ECD779 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:29:24 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:30:03 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45350 Archived-At: The latest Apple developer tools (XCode 3.2.6) provide autoconf version 2.61. Since 'configure' was removed from emacs bzr, it cannot be regenerated on this platform without autoconf >= 2.6.5, i.e. overriding Apple's standard autotools, which is widely deprecated. IMHO, it should continue to be possible to build emacs without doing so, as has always been the case. % ./configure --with-ns zsh: no such file or directory: ./configure % autoreconf configure.in:24: error: Autoconf version 2.65 or higher is required configure.in:24: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 63 aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 63 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63 In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.6.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.35) of 2011-03-21 on mandala.home Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038 configured using `configure '--with-ns' '--without-dbus' 'CFLAGS=-g''