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Bug 765390 - glib fails on autogen.sh with "m4macros/glib-gettext.m4:39: error: m4_copy: won't overwrite defined macro: glib_DEFUN"
glib fails on autogen.sh with "m4macros/glib-gettext.m4:39: error: m4_copy: w...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: build
2.48.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-04-21 18:19 UTC by Dan Kegel
Modified: 2018-05-24 18:51 UTC
See Also:
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Description Dan Kegel 2016-04-21 18:19:19 UTC 
While building glib, either tip of git or 2.46.2, on ubuntu 16.04, autogen.sh
fails:

$ sh autogen.sh
...
m4macros/glib-gettext.m4:39: error: m4_copy: won't overwrite defined macro: glib_DEFUN

Tip of git fails the same way.

I've seen four or five other projects that run into that same error, e.g.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763370

They seem to work around it by deleting glib-gettext.m4 or turning the m4_copy
into m4_copy_force, which subverts the intent of the comment just above the
m4_copy.
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 18:51:09 UTC 
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