Re: unable to run ./prepare on branch 4.6

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Friday, March 01, 2013 05:38:46 am Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Dear gnuplotters,
> 
> I tried to run ./prepare on branch 4.6 in order
> to exclude the (unlikely) option of autotools having unexpected
> behaviour (as it already turned out in past that a buggy version of
> autotools lead to weird problems with Booleans on Mac).
> 
> The problem is that I'm unable to compile the 4.6 branch:
> 
> > ./prepare
> aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not
> 'configure.in'
> configure.in:12: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete.
>     You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead.
> /opt/local/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete-err.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is
> expanded from...
> configure.in:12: the top level
> autom4te: /opt/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
> 
> Some part of the preparation process failed.
> Please refer to INSTALL for details.
> 
> May I please request patching autoconf/automake files in that branch
> to simplify testing?

Perhaps you would do better to hold off using automake 1.13,
which after all was only released last month (Jan 2013).

IMHO they have made a mistake to both deprecate and remove a set of
macros at the same time.  I suspect this has broken the existing
build chains for many projects.

Anyhow, no - I do not want to change the 4.6 configure files at this point.
The risk of breaking things is far higher than the potential gain for the
tiny number of people who are guinea pigs for a just-released incompatible
version of autotools.

	Ethan