On Wednesday, 26 January 2005 at 15:31, Lars Hecking wrote: > > > With the resulting configure script, I of course get the related error: > > > > ./configure: syntax error near unexpected token > > `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)' > > ./configure: ./configure: line 1333: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)' > > > > Looks like I need a newer autoconf, but I've not been able to build one > > successfully -- dependency hell, it would seem. I think this may just be some kind of automake mismatch. A good start would be to get rid of the automake files in the build directory and then rerun automake --add-missing. > Which version of autoconf do you use? > > To my knowledge, there are certain constructs in configure.in that only > work with autoconf 2.13, but Thomas has told me it works for him with > autoconf 2.59 - the latest indeed. remember this? ifdef([AC_LIBOBJ], , [define([AC_LIBOBJ], [LIB[]OBJS="$LIBOBJS $1.o"])]) I've been using ac2.5 for ages now myself, with no problems. > autoconf-2.13 does curently not work either. One needs to comment out > > AC_GNU_SOURCE > > in configure.in, and add > > /* Define to `int' if <types.h> doesn't define. */ > #undef ssize_t > > to acconfig.h. oh well. I'm looking forward to dropping ac 2.13, if only because we can also expect at least automake 1.6, and maybe the possibility of working dependencies.
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