Re: [PATCH] maint: Nicer warning if autoconf-archive not available

[Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>]

Sigh.

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 12:04:10PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> I just committed something similar here (with AX_PROG_BISON rather than
> AX_CXX_COMPILER_STDCXX_11, obviously):
> 
> wouter@pc181009:~/nbd$ autoreconf -f -i
> configure.ac:114: error: The m4 macro AX_PROG_BISON has not been defined. Please install the autoconf-archive package.
> configure.ac:114: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> wouter@pc181009:~/nbd$ sudo apt install autoconf-archive
> [...]
> wouter@pc181009:~/nbd$ autoreconf -f -i
> configure.ac:114: error: The m4 macro AX_PROG_BISON has not been defined. Please install the autoconf-archive package.
> configure.ac:114: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

This was obviously a copy/paste error; the second time should have given
the regular "everything's fine" output from autoreconf.

Anyway, you get the point ;-)

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