pinfo build fails with undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR

pinfo build fails with undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR

[Andrew Schulman]

I'm trying to rebuild pinfo 0.6.13. That's the current version in Cygwin, so I
know I was able to build it successfully a couple of years ago. But now when I
try, the build fails with 

error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR

I'm afraid my grasp of autotools is too weak for me to know what the problem is
here. At present I'm using the inherited src_complile() function from
autotools.cygclass. In the past I used:

src_compile ()
{
    cd "$S"
    gettextize -f   # needed to create tools/config.rpath
    cygautoreconf --install
    cd "$B"
    cygconf
    cygmake
}

but that doesn't fix the AM_INTL_SUBDIR problem.

The full build log is below. Could someone suggest a solution?

Thanks,
Andrew

$ cygport pinfo.cygport make
*** Warning: Building on a case-insensitive filesystem
>>> Compiling pinfo-0.6.13-3.x86_64
autoreconf-2.71: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf-2.71: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf-2.71: running: /usr/bin/autopoint -V 0.21.1 --force
autopoint: warning: Version mismatch: specified -V 0.21.1 but the package uses
gettext version 0.14.4. Forcibly upgrading to 0.21.1
autoreconf-2.71: running: aclocal --force -I macros
configure.ac:144: warning: macro 'AM_INTL_SUBDIR' not found in library
autoreconf-2.71: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf-2.71: running: libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, 'tools'.
libtoolize: copying file 'tools/ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'macros'.
libtoolize: copying file 'macros/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'macros/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'macros/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'macros/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'macros/lt~obsolete.m4'
autoreconf-2.71: configure.ac: not using Intltool
autoreconf-2.71: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc
autoreconf-2.71: running: aclocal --force -I macros
configure.ac:144: warning: macro 'AM_INTL_SUBDIR' not found in library
autoreconf-2.71: running: /usr/bin/autoconf-2.71 --force
configure.ac:55: warning: The macro `AC_PROG_CC_C99' is obsolete.
configure.ac:55: You should run autoupdate.
/mnt/share/cygpkgs/autoconf2.7/autoconf2.7.noarch/src/autoconf-2.71/lib/autoconf/c.m4:1659:
AC_PROG_CC_C99 is expanded from...
configure.ac:55: the top level
configure.ac:104: warning: The macro `AC_CHECKING' is obsolete.
configure.ac:104: You should run autoupdate.
/mnt/share/cygpkgs/autoconf2.7/autoconf2.7.noarch/src/autoconf-2.71/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2499:
AC_CHECKING is expanded from...
macros/readline.m4:102: AC_SEARCH_READLINE is expanded from...
macros/readline.m4:46: AC_CHECK_READLINE is expanded from...
configure.ac:104: the top level
configure.ac:104: warning: The macro `AC_FD_CC' is obsolete.
configure.ac:104: You should run autoupdate.
/mnt/share/cygpkgs/autoconf2.7/autoconf2.7.noarch/src/autoconf-2.71/lib/autoconf/general.m4:399:
AC_FD_CC is expanded from...
macros/readline.m4:111: AC_READLINE_VERSION is expanded from...
macros/readline.m4:46: AC_CHECK_READLINE is expanded from...
configure.ac:104: the top level
configure.ac:159: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf-2.71: error: /usr/bin/autoconf-2.71 failed with exit status: 1
*** ERROR: autoreconf failed

Re: pinfo build fails with undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 11 09:21, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> I'm trying to rebuild pinfo 0.6.13. That's the current version in Cygwin, so I
> know I was able to build it successfully a couple of years ago. But now when I
> try, the build fails with 
> 
> error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR
> 
> I'm afraid my grasp of autotools is too weak for me to know what the problem is
> here. At present I'm using the inherited src_complile() function from
> autotools.cygclass. In the past I used:
> 
> src_compile ()
> {
>     cd "$S"
>     gettextize -f   # needed to create tools/config.rpath
>     cygautoreconf --install
>     cd "$B"
>     cygconf
>     cygmake
> }
> 
> but that doesn't fix the AM_INTL_SUBDIR problem.

Check configure.ac which version of autotools is required.  There's a
good chance you need autoconf 2.69.  You can probably fix that problem
in the cygport file by adding

  WANT_AUTOCONF="2.5"


Corinna

Re: pinfo build fails with undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR

[Andrew Schulman]

> On Apr 11 09:21, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > I'm trying to rebuild pinfo 0.6.13. That's the current version in Cygwin, so I
> > know I was able to build it successfully a couple of years ago. But now when I
> > try, the build fails with 
> > 
> > error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR
> 
> Check configure.ac which version of autotools is required.  There's a
> good chance you need autoconf 2.69.  You can probably fix that problem
> in the cygport file by adding
> 
>   WANT_AUTOCONF="2.5"

Thanks. I tried several different values of WANT_AUTOCONF and WANT_AUTOMAKE, but
they didn't help. From what I can tell, AM_INTL_SUBDIR is just gone from
automake now. 

So I removed the call to AM_INTL_SUBDIR, and that build problem is fixed. Anyway
thanks for pointing me in a direction.

Andrew

Re: pinfo build fails with undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR

[Achim Gratz]

Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-apps writes:
> Thanks. I tried several different values of WANT_AUTOCONF and WANT_AUTOMAKE, but
> they didn't help. From what I can tell, AM_INTL_SUBDIR is just gone from
> automake now. 

It never was there, this is a bug in gettext 0.21.

> So I removed the call to AM_INTL_SUBDIR, and that build problem is fixed. Anyway
> thanks for pointing me in a direction.

The correct solution seems to be to add 'external' to the arguments of AM_GNU_GETTEXT.


Regards,
Achim.
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