Re: ./configure Make sources runs, but compiled make segfaults - is this a bug?

[Tony Theodore]

> On 20 Oct 2015, at 20:47, Mark Galeck <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> You may need this commit, which was after 4.1, if I read git history 
> correctly:
> 
> commit 292da6f6867b75a5af7ddbb639a1feae022f438f
> Author: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Date:  Mon Oct 20 01:54:56 2014 -0400
> 
>    * main.c (main): [SV 43434] Handle NULL returns from ttyname().
> 
> Try getting the latest from git; see
> http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=make
> 
> 
> ----------------------------
> 
> I am still having trouble compiling GNU Make 4.1 from the above git repo.  
> Following instructions from Dan and the file README.git,
> 
> I run
>> autoreconf -i
> 
> This fails because I don't have the latest gettext package, OK I install 
> that, then it fails because I don't have the latest autoconf, OK I install 
> that too, finally  it fails like this:
> 
> 
> configure.ac:45: warning: macro `AM_PROG_AR' not found in library 
> configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AR 
> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. 
> See the Autoconf documentation. 
> autoreconf: //bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 

That’s very likely caused by not finding the m4 macros installed by
automake. This can happen if you’ve installed them in different locations
and you’ll have to use the '-I' (include) flag to tell it where to look.

Cheers,

Tony