Re: Problems when using an alternative autotools installation

[Jim Galarowicz]

Hi Eric,

Thanks!  I had just found this URL:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2008-November/024658.html
that points to similar information, but the reasons were not explained 
as well as you have explained them.

I copied:
 68 -rw-rw-r--. 1 jeg jeg  68973 2011-01-31 11:53 lib-prefix.m4
 96 -rw-rw-r--. 1 jeg jeg  95779 2011-01-31 11:53 gettext.m4
164 -rw-rw-r--. 1 jeg jeg 164640 2011-01-31 11:54 lib-link.m4
 52 -rw-rw-r--. 1 jeg jeg  49320 2011-01-31 11:54 lib-ld.m4
into the libcbtf-xml/m4 directory and the errors are gone.

But, I believe you are saying they should really be added to the 
alternative autotools install directory aclocal subdirectory: 
/opt/newest_autotools_root/share/aclocal.  I will try that.

Thanks very much for this information!

Jim G

address@hidden libcbtf-xml]$ ls /opt/newest_autotools_root/share/aclocal*
/opt/newest_autotools_root/share/aclocal:
argz.m4  libtool.m4  ltdl.m4  lt~obsolete.m4  ltoptions.m4  ltsugar.m4 
ltversion.m4

/opt/newest_autotools_root/share/aclocal-1.11:
amversion.m4  cond.m4     header.m4      lispdir.m4     mkdirp.m4 
options.m4  sanity.m4    upc.m4
as.m4         depend.m4   init.m4        maintainer.m4  multi.m4 
protos.m4   silent.m4    vala.m4
auxdir.m4     depout.m4   install-sh.m4  make.m4        obsolete.m4 
python.m4   strip.m4
ccstdc.m4     dmalloc.m4  lead-dot.m4    minuso.m4      obsol-gt.m4 
regex.m4    substnot.m4
cond-if.m4    gcj.m4      lex.m4         missing.m4     obsol-lt.m4 
runlog.m4   tar.m4
address@hidden libcbtf-xml]$ ls /usr/share/aclocal*
/usr/share/aclocal:
alsa.m4        glib-gettext.m4          intlmacosx.m4       lib-ld.m4 
    ltsugar.m4       uintmax_t.m4
argz.m4        gnome-common.m4          intltool.m4         lib-link.m4 
    ltversion.m4     visibility.m4
bison-i18n.m4  gnome-compiler-flags.m4  intmax.m4 
lib-prefix.m4   nls.m4           wchar_t.m4
codeset.m4     gnome-doc-utils.m4       inttypes_h.m4       libtool.m4 
    ORBit2.m4        wint_t.m4
fontutil.m4    gpg-error.m4             inttypes-pri.m4     libxml.m4 
    pkg.m4           xorg-macros.m4
freetype2.m4   gtk-doc.m4               lcmessage.m4        lock.m4 
    po.m4            xsize.m4
gettext.m4     iconv.m4                 libcurl.m4          longlong.m4 
    printf-posix.m4  xtrans.m4
glib-2.0.m4    intdiv0.m4               libgcrypt.m4        ltdl.m4 
    progtest.m4
glibc21.m4     intldir.m4               libgnutls-extra.m4 
lt~obsolete.m4  size_max.m4
glibc2.m4      intl.m4                  libgnutls.m4        ltoptions.m4 
   stdint_h.m4

/usr/share/aclocal-1.11:
amversion.m4  cond.m4     header.m4      lispdir.m4     mkdirp.m4 
options.m4  sanity.m4    upc.m4
as.m4         depend.m4   init.m4        maintainer.m4  multi.m4 
protos.m4   silent.m4    vala.m4
auxdir.m4     depout.m4   install-sh.m4  make.m4        obsolete.m4 
python.m4   strip.m4
ccstdc.m4     dmalloc.m4  lead-dot.m4    minuso.m4      obsol-gt.m4 
regex.m4    substnot.m4
cond-if.m4    gcj.m4      lex.m4         missing.m4     obsol-lt.m4 
runlog.m4   tar.m4

/usr/share/aclocal-1.4:
amversion.m4  dmalloc.m4  init.m4     maintainer.m4  multi.m4 
ptrdiff.m4  strtod.m4
ccstdc.m4     error.m4    lex.m4      missing.m4     obstack.m4 
regex.m4    termios.m4
cond.m4       header.m4   lispdir.m4  mktime.m4      protos.m4 
sanity.m4   winsz.m4

/usr/share/aclocal-1.5:
as.m4      depend.m4   gcj.m4         lex.m4         minuso.m4 
protos.m4   sanity.m4   winsz.m4
auxdir.m4  depout.m4   header.m4      lispdir.m4     missing.m4 
ptrdiff.m4  strip.m4
ccstdc.m4  dmalloc.m4  init.m4        maintainer.m4  multi.m4 
python.m4   strtod.m4
cond.m4    error.m4    install-sh.m4  make.m4        obstack.m4 
regex.m4    termios.m4

/usr/share/aclocal-1.6:
amversion.m4  cond.m4     gcj.m4         lex.m4         minuso.m4 
protos.m4  sanity.m4
as.m4         depend.m4   header.m4      lispdir.m4     missing.m4 
python.m4  strip.m4
auxdir.m4     depout.m4   init.m4        maintainer.m4  multi.m4 
regex.m4   termios.m4
ccstdc.m4     dmalloc.m4  install-sh.m4  make.m4        options.m4 
runlog.m4  winsz.m4

/usr/share/aclocal-1.7:
amversion.m4  cond.m4     gcj.m4         lead-dot.m4    make.m4 
obsolete.m4  protos.m4  sanity.m4
as.m4         depend.m4   header.m4      lex.m4         minuso.m4 
obsol-gt.m4  python.m4  strip.m4
auxdir.m4     depout.m4   init.m4        lispdir.m4     missing.m4 
obsol-lt.m4  regex.m4
ccstdc.m4     dmalloc.m4  install-sh.m4  maintainer.m4  multi.m4 
options.m4   runlog.m4

On 01/31/2011 11:58 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/31/2011 10:22 AM, Jim Galarowicz wrote:
> > Still fails as below but autoconf is putting out a lot more messages
> > about what is going on but the errors are still there as well as the
> > warnings.
> >
> >      configure:15501: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_RPATH
>
> AC_LIB_RPATH is not provided by autoconf itself (I _really_ wish third
> party macro providers would quit stealing autoconf's namespace).  What
> this means is that you probably installed some other package that
> installed its own copy of a file that provides AC_LIB_RPATH in the
> /old/path/share/aclocal directory, and that you need to either copy this
> .m4 file into your new /opt/newest_autotools_root/share/aclocal, or else
> add a redirect file /opt/newest_autotools_root/share/aclocal/dirlist
> that tells aclocal all other directories to look in (aclocal is an
> automake tool, not an autoconf one, so I'm pointing you to the automake
> manual):
> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Macro-Search-Path
>
>
> >      configure:15514: error: possibly undefined macro:
> > AC_LIB_WITH_FINAL_PREFIX
> > configure:15858: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_APPENDTOVAR
>
> Likewise, two more macros not provided by autoconf itself.
>
>
>
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