Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake

[Glenn Morris]

Andy Moreton wrote:

> On Tue 06 May 2014, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>> Hey, so please actually *give the details* of the problem that *you* see
>> caused by r117046.
>
> I see exactly the same problems as Juanma and everybody else trying to
> get the autotools stuff working again on Windows:

This is completely unrelated to r117046.

> Checking for pkg.m4...
> Can't locate Automake/Getopt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
> /usr/share/automake-1.11 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/5.8 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/msys 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) at 
> /c/emacs/mingw-devel/msys/bin/aclocal line 984.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /c/emacs/mingw-devel/msys/bin/aclocal 
> line 984.

I interpret this to mean that your aclocal prints "Can't locate
Automake/Getopt.pm in @INC" and exits with an error when called as
`aclocal --print-ac-dir'. I don't know what else to say, other than this
means your aclocal is broken, as has already been stated. Presumably it
was always broken in this way, but it never showed up till now (because
it was never called with that option before).

You need to get it working somehow, and then teach it where the pkg.m4
file that pkg-config provides is installed, if it cannot figure it out
itself.