Re: autoconf weirdness

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 04:58:06PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> I just typed in
> 
> aclocal -I m4
> autoconf
> 

If instead I try:

[770] [scrooge:bam] ~/tmp/woody/selinux/broken/shellutils-2.0.11 >aclocal      
[771] [scrooge:bam] ~/tmp/woody/selinux/broken/shellutils-2.0.11 >autoconf
configure.in:124: /usr/bin/m4: Undefined macro `jm_PREREQ_READUTMP'
configure.in:174: /usr/bin/m4: Undefined macro `jm_PREREQ_READUTMP'

Then I get a "valid" configure (at least the top bit is valid).

So deleting all files but those which define these macros (and
macros required by these macros), I get these files:

[794] [scrooge:bam] ~/tmp/woody/selinux/broken/shellutils-2.0.11 >ls -l
m4
total 76
-rw-r--r--    1 bam      bam         40611 Oct 28  2000 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--    1 bam      bam           621 Jan 30  2000 inttypes_h.m4
-rw-r--r--    1 bam      bam          1334 Aug 29  2000 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--    1 bam      bam           409 May  9  2000 Makefile.am.in
-rw-r--r--    1 bam      bam          7030 Sep 12 15:51 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r--    1 bam      bam          2821 Oct 28  2000 prereq.m4
-rw-r--r--    1 bam      bam           444 Apr 20  2000 README
-rw-r--r--    1 bam      bam           577 Jan 29  2000 uintmax_t.m4
-rw-r--r--    1 bam      bam           570 Aug  1  1999 ulonglong.m4

running autoconf I get this error:

[793] [scrooge:bam] ~/tmp/woody/selinux/broken/shellutils-2.0.11
>autoconf     
autoconf: Undefined macros:
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_CHECK_MEMBERS
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_CHECK_MEMBERS
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_CHECK_MEMBERS
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_CHECK_MEMBERS
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_LIBOBJ

So what is wrong here?
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>