[Kde-imaging] bootstrap error in kdeextragear-libs-1

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Friday 02 July 2004 22:10, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
| Am Wednesday 30 June 2004 08:31 schrieb Jesper K. Pedersen:
| > | *** Creating configure
| > | configure.in:294: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
| > |       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
| > | m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation.
| > | gmake[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
| > | gmake: *** [all] Error 2
| >
| > I had a similar error, and needed to install an extra suse package on my
| > system (which to me seemed rather unrelated). Of course I do not remember
| > which, but I found it by searching google.
|
| Well, that didn't work out here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't a
| working autoconf/automake installation be sufficient to bootstrap a kde
| module and all other dependencies should only matter at configure-time? 
In theory there are no difference between practice and theory.

The problem IIRC was some missing _stuff_ (read I dont remember very well) for 
autoconf. A missing implementation of AC_MSG_WARN IIRC.
| I 
| can reproduce this error readily on several freebsd machines with several
| different automake/autoconf versions, however it does seem to work on a
| SuSE 9.1 (with a full desktop/devel complement of installed packages, not
| too useful for comparison...).
|
| If anybody has a clue what could be wrong here, please don't hesitate to
| send me patches to try.... As long as kdeextragear-libs-1 remains
| unbootstrapable on FreeBSD, we can't do any testing of it and
| kdeextragear-3 at all.