Re: Building LO fails with autogen

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> On 29 Dec 2014, at 11:35 am, Will Entriken <fulldecent@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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> > Jens Tröger
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