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

[Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 12:08:08PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Thanks for the new warning, its very much welcomed. I had no idea of
such a package. At least for SUSE SLE15-SP2 release there actually
two products which need to be registered to be able to get such package :P

SUSEConnect -p sle-module-desktop-applications/15.3/x86_64                 
SUSEConnect -p sle-module-development-tools/15.3/x86_64

Oy vei.

  Luis