Re: Bug: "possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR"

[Hans Aberg]

On 3 Mar 2008, at 21:32, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> This is what I get when I check out the darcs repo and run 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
>
> If however I run aclocal first, or just run 'autoreconf -vi', then  
> I do
> not get any errors.

I can also run 'autoreconf -vi'; error on the first:
# autoreconf -vi
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoconf
configure.ac:101: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use  
m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

# autoreconf -vi
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'

I will try yet another.

  Hans Aberg