Autoconf problems?

Autoconf problems?

[Brian Call]

Hi Guys,

I'm having some problems getting autoconf to generate the configure script.
I'm not much of a wiz with autoconf but I've tried everything I can think of
(including getting the latest version) to no avail. Here are the error
messages I'm seeing when running the autoconf from the mauve base directory:

 
$ autoconf

configure.in:3: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

configure.in:13: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.in:42: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_GCJ

Does anyone, by chance, know what the heck I'm doing wrong? Also, I couldn't
find anything in the docs on using the m4_pattern_allow flag. Any thoughts?
I'm running Win2k with Cygwin....

Any help is greatly, greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian Call

Re: Autoconf problems?

[Brian Jones]

Brian Call <bcall@precise.com> writes:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I'm having some problems getting autoconf to generate the configure script.
> I'm not much of a wiz with autoconf but I've tried everything I can think of
> (including getting the latest version) to no avail. Here are the error
> messages I'm seeing when running the autoconf from the mauve base directory:

I'll probably regret responding without trying myself... but the usual
invocation from CVS is `aclocal;automake;autoconf'.  aclocal updates
aclocal.m4 which is where autoconf should find the macros you
mention.  aclocal should complain if it cannot find them in
/usr/share/aclocal/.  Hope that helps.

Brian
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Brian Jones <cbj@gnu.org>