Re: Unable to install M4 1.4.17 using PGI 15.10 compilers

[Eric Blake]

On 03/07/2016 09:32 AM, Stewart, Adam James wrote:
> Thanks everybody,
> 
> I applied the patch to m4/extern-inline.m4 successfully, but now I am getting 
> the following error message during make:
> 
> CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh 
> /tmp/ajstewart/spack-stage/spack-stage-wHnXsx/m4-1.4.17/build-aux/missing 
> aclocal-1.14 -I m4
> /tmp/ajstewart/spack-stage/spack-stage-wHnXsx/m4-1.4.17/build-aux/missing: 
> line 81: aclocal-1.14: command not found
> WARNING: 'aclocal-1.14' is missing on your system.
>          You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
>          'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
>          The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
>          It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
>          <http://www.perl.org/>
> make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127
> 
> Any idea what went wrong?

The error is pretty clear - you don't have the autotools installed (in
particular, automake 1.14), but you touched a file that requires the
autotools to propagate your change back into generated files.

It may be easier to create a new M4 tarball on a machine that has all
the usual GNU tools, then try to build that tarball with your PGI
compiler, than to try and bootstrap your PGI machine up to the point
where it can run the autotools natively.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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