Re: Why is gl_GC_RANDOM not found?

[Bruce Korb]

I am using Gary Vaughan's bootstrap script from years ago. It's worked
fine all this time, but I'll instrument it to see what gives.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 7:09 PM Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Bruce Korb wrote:
> >  $ autoreconf --symlink --install
> > configure.ac:47: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_GC_RANDOM
> >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> >       See the Autoconf documentation.
> > autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> >  $ fgrep gl_GC_RANDOM $(find gnulib/m4 libopts/m4 m4 -name '*.m4')
> > gnulib/m4/gc-random.m4:AC_DEFUN([gl_GC_RANDOM],
>
> Some guesses:
> - It looks like the maintainer of your package has invoked gnulib-tool
>   and not followed all the maintainer advice that gnulib-tool prints at
>   the end.
>   Try re-running gnulib-tool with the same arguments (usually done
>   via some autogen.sh, bootstrap, Makefile.devel, or through the invocation
>   cached in gnulib-cache.m4), and verify that all the maintainer advice
>   has been followed.
> - Or maybe some -I options have been removed from ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, to
>   avoid a warning from not-yet-released versions of Automake?
>
> Bruno
>


-- 
 - Bruce