Re: Bug: "possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR"

[Hans Aberg]

On 3 Mar 2008, at 23:29, Axel Simon wrote:

> Since it's on line 101, it has to be this call:
>
> if test $HC = ghc-not-found; then
>  AC_MSG_ERROR([
> Could not find GHC!  This is the only supported compiler.
> You need GHC 6.4 or later.])
> fi
>
> You could join the 'Could not find...' line with the previous line  
> and see if the error goes away. The indentation and quoting is  
> identical to other macros that are distributed with autoconf/automake.

If I do that, I get a whole host of new errors, and the first is  
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. SO I installet latest automake to be sure, from  
1.10 to 1.10.1. Still, same error.

But two autoconf in a row (on a new darcs download) works.

  HAns Aberg


---- Snippet ----
# /usr/local/bin/autoconf
configure.ac:26: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use  
m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:64: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.ac:101: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
configure.ac:136: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE

# /usr/local/bin/autoconf
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