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Bug 533159 - istanbul 0.2.2 fails at autogen.sh with a missing macro
istanbul 0.2.2 fails at autogen.sh with a missing macro
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: istanbul
Classification: Other
Component: general
HEAD CVS
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Zaheer Abbas Merali
Zaheer Abbas Merali
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-14 18:06 UTC by Boris Petersen
Modified: 2010-03-20 16:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
A patch to fix autoreconf. (651 bytes, patch)
2008-07-07 18:57 UTC, Michael Wolf 		none Details | Review

Description Boris Petersen 2008-05-14 18:06:56 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
running ./autogen.sh aclocal fails with a missing macro:



Steps to reproduce:
1. run ./autogen.sh


Actual results:
+ aclocal -I common
common/gst-feature.m4:50: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
common/gst-feature.m4:50: the top level
autom4te-2.62: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
+ exit 1

Expected results:
autogen.sh should run as expected and create a configure script

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
I'm pretty sure i have all autotools application installed properly.
Comment 1 Michael Wolf 2008-07-07 18:29:03 UTC 
I'm getting the same thing on a SUSE Factory system.  The following are, I think, the relevant packages:

$ rpm -qa | egrep '(automake|autoconf|m4)' | sort
autoconf-2.62-4
automake-1.10.1-28
m4-1.4.11-15


My workaround was to remove the call to autoreconf in our istanbul package, which clearly won't help people trying to build from a svn checkout or trying to patch autofoo files.

I'm seeing the same thing for other packages but so far haven't managed to come up with a decent workaround.
Comment 2 Michael Wolf 2008-07-07 18:57:51 UTC 
Created attachment 114135 [details] [review]
A patch to fix autoreconf.

Adding this patch seems to do the trick with istanbul.
Comment 3 Boris Petersen 2008-08-03 17:11:52 UTC 
this patch fixes it for me aswell, thanks!
Comment 4 Tobias Mueller 2009-02-07 00:20:26 UTC 
As I am another one, who's hitting this issue, I'm setting this to NEW.

The patch fixes the issue for me as well.

Zaheer, could you please review the patch?

BTW: Hi transacid :)
Comment 5 Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-08-20 00:23:14 UTC 
Confirming, the patch fixes the problem.
Comment 6 Zaheer Abbas Merali 2010-03-20 16:06:03 UTC 
Thanks fixed, sorry for the enormous delay!