Re: What is `aclocal' trying to tell me? ``error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion''

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Thomas,

* Thomas Schwinge wrote on Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:51:01PM CEST:
> 
> I used to use this successfully with GNU Automake 1.10, but now I'm on a
> system where only 1.9 is available, which i supossed to work and be
> supported as well.

What says `m4 --version'?  Could you try 1.4.9, please (export
M4=/path/to/m4 to override the choice for the autotools)?

> But now, what is `aclocal' trying to tell me?
> 
> #v+
> $ AUTOMAKE=automake-1.9 ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.9 autoreconf -vfi
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal-1.9 --force
> linux/configfrag.ac:137: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
> linux/configfrag.ac:126: AC_Linux_DRIVER_qemu is expanded from...
> linux/configfrag.ac:137: the top level

I usually see this with wrongly set parentheses, but cannot see this
here.  Show `aclocal-1.9 --force --verbose' output, please.  I don't
think this is an Automake issue.  Which autoconf version?

Cheers,
Ralf