Re: building guile problem (configure: possibly undefined macro)

[Stefan Israelsson Tampe <stefan.itampe@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I had the same problem. The problem is that the aclocal directory in
/usr/local/share or something doesn't get the m4 macro files that you
can find in e.g. /usr/shara/aclocal and it's there the build system
looks. Maybe there is a better fix dunno.

/Stefan

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <hi@yagnesh.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Guilers,
>
> My first post on this list, so please go easy.
>
> I am trying to build guile from repository on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I cloned git repo
> and checked out stable branch.
>
> tried to run "autgen.sh"
>
> First, problem automake version.
>
> It seems to build guile I need to have automake 1.12 atleast.
>
> ╭─────
> │okhotsk19:~/repos/scm/guile$ /usr/bin/automake --version
> │automake (GNU automake) 1.11.3
> │Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> │License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> │This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> │There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> │
> │Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> │       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.
> ╰─────
>
> I feel that dependency is somewhat harsh given that ubuntu 12.04 is the latest LTS.
>
>
> Any way I compiled automake from source,
>
> ╭─────
> │okhotsk19:~/repos/scm/guile$ automake --version
> │automake (GNU automake) 1.12.4
> │Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> │License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> │This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> │There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> │
> │Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> │       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.
> ╰─────
>
> Now, I run autogen.sh gives errors. here is shell log.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> okhotsk19:~/repos/scm/guile$ ./autogen.sh
>
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
>
> automake (GNU automake) 1.12.4
> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
>        and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.
>
> libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2
> Written by Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, 1996
>
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by Rene' Seindal.
>
> flex 2.5.35
>
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
> configure.ac:881: warning: macro 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /home/yagnesh/local/bin/autoconf --force
> 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
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Thanks.
> --
> ఎందరో మహానుభావులు అందరికి వందనములు.
> YYR
>
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