Re: KDE 3.5.5 autoconf errors

[Matthew Woehlke]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > I don't have autoconf > 2.59 on that box, but I am forwarding this to 
> > > kde-devel to see if anyone else can help (and to let them know about the 
> > > problem). Any autoconf folks that want to look could download any KDE 
> > > 3.5.5 package to see an example of this problem (at least I guess any 
> > > package will do, I am building artwork ATM).
>
> But we don't necessarily have your exact system to test on, so if you do
> not post the corresponding bits of config.log that show the errors that
> belong to these warnings, then helping you is so much more work.

I wasn't talking about the "real" errors, I was talking about the 
appearance of "AC_PACKAGE_NAME" in the errors (and configure, really). 
Therefore I think what you really want is the computer of the person 
that rolled the packages. :-)

Actually, looking in e.g. 
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/configure.in.in?rev=526641&view=markup 
I see "AC_INIT(acinclude.m4)". I'm not sure what this means...?

I assume/hope it is safe to freshly unpack a package and (re-)run 
'autoconf' and see what is generated?

> > > Yes, and please give them details from config.log.
> >
> > Ok, thanks.

...by which I meant that I consider this part of the conversation 
concluded until I have more time to do so. (But I intend to take a 
closer look myself, first, to see if I can't spot the problem on my own, 
before I send big logs flying around.)

> > This looks like a problem in 2.59; I have configure scripts for kdevelop 
> > SVN generated by 2.59 and 2.60, and 2.59 has the problem. 2.60 doesn't 
> > seem to have anything like the 'Report this...' message,
>
> Wrong.  The warning is just worded a bit differently (and doesn't
> contain a reference to who to report to, since it knows none).

Clarification: I was searching for '## ----', NOT any particular wording 
of the message. Oddly enough, I found it now; couldn't before. Huh.

Ok, so autoconf-2.60 on my computer generates the same bad-ness from the 
same input. Would this be something about "AC_INIT(acinclude.m4)"? I 
looked at that file, but I have no clue what it is doing, so I don't 
know what it might be missing to set the bug report address.

--
Matthew
"What a wonderful smell you've discovered!" -- Princess Leia Organa