RE: Unable to install M4 1.4.17 using PGI 15.10 compilers

[Stewart, Adam James]

Eric,

$ which automake
/usr/bin/automake
$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I'm surprised that such a new version of Autotools is required. But I can give 
it a shot.

Adam

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From: Eric Blake address@hidden
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 10:40 AM
To: Stewart, Adam James; Paul Eggert; Bruno Haible; address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Unable to install M4 1.4.17 using PGI 15.10 compilers

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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