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

[Renchi Raju]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

> 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...).

some googling indicates that problem might be because of multiple autoconf
versions on the same systems or a stale file left over from a previous
autoconf version. by no means an expert on autoconf here; but this could
be something you could investigate.

renchi