Re: linking liboctave fails (lapack missing?)

[Thomas Treichl]

Benjamin Lindner schrieb:
> Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> > Thomas Treichl wrote:
> > > Benjamin Lindner schrieb:
> > > > I also tried with updated versions of msys and tools, but the same 
> > > > errors occur.
> > > >
> > > > $ autoheader --version
> > > > autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
> > > > Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > > License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
> > > > <http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> > > > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > > > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> > > >
> > > > Written by Roland McGrath and Akim Demaille.
> > > >
> > > > $ automake --version
> > > > automake (GNU automake) 1.11
> > > > Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > > License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later 
> > > > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> > > > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > > > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> > > >
> > > > Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
> > > >        and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden>.
> > > >
> > > > benjamin
> > >
> > > The problems do come somewhere from inside of "m4_ifnblank", 
> > > "m4_ifblank" and "m4_toupper" in file aclocal.m4 and macro 
> > > OCTAVE_CHECK_LIBRARY. It seems that these functions don't like any of 
> > > AC_DEFINE, AC_LANG_POP etc. as an argument, but I don't get it 
> > > corrected...
> >
> > As a wild guess, can it have something to do with the version of perl 
> > or m4 used?
> >
> > $ perl --version
> > This is perl, v5.6.1 built for msys
> > $ m4 --version
> > GNU M4 1.4.7
>
> Too wild a guess,
> the macro m4_ifnblank has been introduced in version 2.64.
> there is only 2.63 available on msys, so no wonder it fails, sigh
>
> benjamin

Ha, true ;o)
This fixes all the ./autogen.sh problems. There is no error left anymore,
so AC_PREREQ(2.60) of configure.in should be changed to AC_PREREQ(2.64).

Best regards

  Thomas