GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 641655
configure should honor aclocal flags ACLOCAL_FLAGS
Last modified: 2011-02-06 12:26:04 UTC
I'm building gnome-video-effects via JHBuild. gnome-video-effects builds successfully. If upstream then updates configure.ac, then I run 'make', which attempts a reconfigure, but fails. This is because JHBuild sets ACLOCAL_FLAGS to include the sandbox (e.g. -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal). One may argue it is silly for JHBuild to require every module to support ACLOCAL_FLAGS, but there isn't a way around it until automake-1.12 is out - which includes support for ACLOCAL_PATH. Further details in the JHBuild bug 634617. The build failure is: make V=1 CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /home/Oxyde/gnome/gnome-video-effects/missing --run aclocal-1.11 configure.ac:18: warning: macro `AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library cd . && /bin/sh /home/Oxyde/gnome/gnome-video-effects/missing --run automake-1.11 --gnu effects/Makefile.am:1: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension effects/Makefile.am:1: wildcard $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name effects/Makefile.am:1: (probably a GNU make extension) CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /home/Oxyde/gnome/gnome-video-effects/missing --run autoconf configure.ac:18: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. make: *** [configure] Error 1
Created attachment 180215 [details] [review] Honor aclocal flags
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.