Re: Bug: "possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR"

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Hans Aberg wrote on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:10:08AM CET:
>
> On 4 Mar 2008, at 08:16, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
>> As a workaround, you should consider adding
>>   m4_pattern_forbid([^GTKHS_])
>
> I added this after
>   AC_INIT([gtk2hs],[0.9.12.2])
> but it did not help (see below).

Yes, it helped: it caused autom4te to produce useful error messages.

> But two autoconf worked as usual.

We are talking past each other.  When you say "autoconf worked" you mean
it exited with 0 and output no warnings.  When I sat "autoconf works"
then I mean the resulting configure script is useful, contains no
unexpanded macro names, _and_ autoconf did not output any warnings and
exited successfully.

Cheers,
Ralf

> # autoconf
> configure.ac:27: 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:65: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
> configure.ac:102: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
> configure.ac:114: error: possibly undefined macro:  
> GTKHS_PROG_CHECK_VERSION
> configure.ac:137: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
> configure.ac:279: error: possibly undefined macro: GTKHS_PKG_CHECK
> configure.ac:385: error: possibly undefined macro:  
> GTKHS_GLIBC_PTHREAD_HACK
> configure.ac:568: error: possibly undefined macro:  
> GTKHS_PACKAGE_FILTER_CFLAGS
> configure.ac:569: error: possibly undefined macro:  
> GTKHS_PACKAGE_FILTER_LIBS
> configure.ac:603: error: possibly undefined macro:  
> GTKHS_REFORMAT_PACKAGE_CFLAGS
> configure.ac:604: error: possibly undefined macro:  
> GTKHS_REFORMAT_PACKAGE_LIBS