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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: building guile problem (configure: possibly undefined macro)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:33:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ip4f35x8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ip4fd3c0.fsf@yagnesh.org

Hi,

Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <hi@yagnesh.org> skribis:

> It seems to build guile I need to have automake 1.12 atleast. 

Yes.

> I feel that dependency is somewhat harsh given that ubuntu 12.04 is the latest LTS.

Automake is not needed when building from a tarball.  So we’d just
requiring that from people who are likely developers (to be) of Guile.
This doesn’t sound unreasonable to me.

> configure.ac:61: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:80: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
> configure.ac:81: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> configure.ac:908: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
> autoreconf: /home/yagnesh/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Make sure to install libtool-dev and gettext-dev (or similar packages).
They should provide the Autoconf macros mentioned above.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-25 13:19 building guile problem (configure: possibly undefined macro) Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2013-03-25 14:33 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-03-25 20:00   ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2013-03-25 15:24 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2013-03-25 15:40   ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2013-03-25 15:43     ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2013-03-25 16:26       ` SOLVED; " Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2013-03-25 18:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-25 18:06   ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-25 20:10     ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala

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