Re: PKG_CHECK_MODULES not working in Solaris

[Daniel Pocock]

On 27/01/14 15:59, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2014-01-27 15:50 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> On 27/01/14 14:27, Eric Blake wrote:
> [...]
>>> Stick this in your configure.ac:
>>>
>>> m4_pattern_forbid([PKG_*])
>>>
>>> then anyone running autoconf on your package without the pkg-config m4
>>> modules installed will get an earlier error at autoconf time flagging
>>> the unexpanded macro, rather than a late error at configure execution of
>>> a shell syntax error or unfound command.
>> I tried adding that just under AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>> https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate/blob/master/configure.ac
>>
>> autoreconf now fails even if pkg-config is present, here is the output:
>>
>> $ autoreconf -fi
> [...]
>> configure:1477: error: possibly undefined macro: PKGS
>>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>>       See the Autoconf documentation.
>> configure:16327: error: possibly undefined macro: ac_cv_env_PKG_CONFIG_set
>> configure:16333: error: possibly undefined macro: ac_cv_path_PKG_CONFIG
>> configure:16371: error: possibly undefined macro: ac_pt_PKG_CONFIG
>> configure:16376: error: possibly undefined macro:
>> ac_cv_path_ac_pt_PKG_CONFIG
>> configure:16508: error: possibly undefined macro: DEPS_PYTHON_PKG_ERRORS
>> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> m4_pattern_forbid([^PKG_]) should work a bit better (untested).

Thanks, that appears to work