Re: kdelibs build problem: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_MKDTEMP

[Ross Boylan]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:33:29PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I am trying to build KDE on a Debian GNU/Linux testing system (build
> from cvs head).  I keep running into problems that I think are related
> the versions of the auto* tools I'm using.
> 
> Do I need particular versions of autoconf to work with particular
> versions of automake, for example?  How do I find which ones are
> consistent?
> 
> And how can I figure out what is going on with errors like the
> following, while trying to build kdelibs:
> make -k -f Makefile.cvs
> This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
> 
> *** Creating acinclude.m4
> *** Creating list of subdirectories
> *** Creating configure.in
> *** Creating aclocal.m4
> *** Creating configure
> configure.in:105: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_MKDTEMP
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.

OK, this problem was an odd side effect of mixing cvs and cvsup, which
froze some files at older versions.  The macro is defined in some
other KDE files.

I am still interested in answers on the general questions raised at
the top of the message.