Re: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest

[Noah Misch]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:53:27PM -0400, Lubbers, Dave H. wrote:
> The error:
> error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest 
> occurs when I do a ./bootstrap which uses aclocal.
> The popdef is in a for_each loop in status.m4 where there is a pushdef at the 
> top of the loop and a popdef at the bottom of the loop.  An identical loop is 
> found in autoconf.m4f.
> Are there any patches for this?
> redhat enterprise 4 / autoconf 2.59
> The internet has zillions of posts about this error but I was not able to 
> discern a direct answer to any of them.

This problem is usually caused by a `dnl' in a quoted argument to
AC_CONFIG_FILES or AC_OUTPUT, like this:

  AC_CONFIG_FILES([
    Makefile
    dnl foo/Makefile
    bar/Makefile
  ])

You can delete the dnl'ed lines, and that should fix things.  If your problem is
different, please post `configure.ac' or `configure.in'.


CVS Autoconf will not report an error in this case, but `configure' will fail:

$ ./configure
./configure: line 1595: syntax error near unexpected token `;;'
./configure: line 1595: `echo "$as_me: WARNING: Cache variable $ac_var contains
a newline." >&2;} ;;'