Re: ./configure Make sources runs, but compiled make segfaults - is this a bug?

[Mark Galeck]

> configure.ac:45: warning: macro `AM_PROG_AR' not found in library 

> configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AR 
> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. 
> See the Autoconf documentation. 
> autoreconf: //bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 

>That’s very likely caused by not finding the m4 macros installed by
>automake. This can happen if you’ve installed them in different locations
>and you’ll have to use the '-I' (include) flag to tell it where to look.


Not sure what you mean...  I did not "install any macros".  I just ran 
"autoreconf -i" then I ran "configure".  

To get "autoreconf -i" to work until the above failure, I had to install the 
latest versions of gettext and autoconf.  The original versions were in /bin, 
so I used the "configure" scripts in these packages to setup their installation 
to overwrite the original versions.  That's all.  


>There’s a ‘make update’ there that you may have missed. 

Sorry I forgot.  This one fails as follows:

>make update 
(...)
[ -d "po" ] && make do-po-update 
make[1]: Entering directory `/make/make' 
tmppo="/tmp/po-make-4.1.90.$$" \ 
&& rm -rf "$tmppo" \ 
&& mkdir "$tmppo" \ 
&& (cd "$tmppo" \ 
&& wget --passive-ftp -np -nv --recursive --level=1 --no-directories 
--no-check-certificate -A '*.po' http://translationproject.org/latest/make) \ 
&& cp "$tmppo"/*.po ./po \ 
&& rm -rf "$tmppo" 
wget: unable to resolve host address `translationproject.org' 
make[1]: *** [do-po-update] Error 4 




Yes I don't have internet access in that jail so "translationproject.org" is 
not accessible.  Does that mean that in order to compile GNU Make from Git, you 
need internet access??  I am sorry, this seems very strange to me.

Mark