Re: Building LO fails with autogen

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On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Jens Tröger <jens.troeger@light-speed.de>
wrote:

> Thank you, Miklos,
>
> > > Using
> > >
> > >   autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
> > >   automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1
> > >
> > > still gives that same error
> > >
> > >   configure.ac:111: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_CHECKING
> > >         If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow.
> > >         See the Autoconf documentation.
> > >
> > > Should I use 1.13.4 exactly?
> >
> > autoconf-2.69 works fine for me. Note that we do not require automake
> > for building LO (when patching externals, we intentionally patch
> > Makefile.in files as well when patching Makefile.ams to avoid this
> > dependency). Maybe check with your distro what can be the problem?
> >
> > AC_MSG_CHECKING is probably used in every configure.ac, in LO's case,
> > it's used 300+ times, so it's not a corner-case. ;-)
>
> Here is my autoconf:
>
>   libreoffice-4.3.5.2 > autoconf --version
>   autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
>   Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> The source tree is the official tar unpacked, fresh and virgin without
> any modifications.  Here's what happens:
>
>   libreoffice-4.3.5.2 > ./autogen.sh --without-java --enable-headless
> --with-theme=no
>   configure.ac:111: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_CHECKING
>         If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow.
>         See the Autoconf documentation.
>   configure.ac:117: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_RESULT
>   configure.ac:217: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
>   configure.ac:287: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
>   configure.ac:3426: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_SOURCE
>   configure.ac:3928: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_PUSH
>   configure.ac:3941: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_POP
>   configure.ac:8175: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_RUN_IFELSE
>   Failed to run autoconf at ./autogen.sh line 157.
>
> This is on a Gentoo Linux system.  I am not sure what that error message
> means, and looking up "m4_pattern_allow" I found this note:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2010-01/msg00050.html
>
> Do you know what's happening here?
> Jens
>
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