Re: pinfo build fails with undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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