Re: Configure.in migration facility

[Tim Van Holder]

On 03 Sep 2001 11:04:37 +0100, John Poltorak wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:22:05PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
> > >>>>> "John" == John Poltorak <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > To avoid needing two versions of Autoconf installed, is there anything 
> > > like a migration facility which would convert old configure.in files to a 
> > > format suitable for v2.50? Or alternatively, will v2.50+ be updated to 
> > > provide backward compatibility?
> > 
> > You can run autoupdate that comes with autoconf 2.50+.
> 
> I've just tried running autoupdate using the configure.in from grep 2.4.2, 
> but after conversion, I get these errors from autoconf:-
> 
> ./aclocal.m4:470: error: m4_defn: undefined: _m4_divert_diversion
> acoldnames.m4:86: AM_PROG_INSTALL is expanded from...
> ./aclocal.m4:470: the top level
> 
> 
> I don't get these errors when using autoconf 2.13.
> 
> Any ideas about what is missing?
> 
Yes - a recent automake.  Automake defines macros that are now also
defined by autoconf.  Older versions of automake defined them without
quoting their names, leading to this problem.
You'll want to install either automake 1.5 or the last 1.4 patch release
(1.4-p6, I think), and then re-run aclocal.