Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problems building Gnuradio on Ubuntu 6.10

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:52:26PM -0800, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 19:44 -0800, Mike Goldberg wrote:
> 
> > address@hidden:~/gnuradio$ ./bootstrap
> > /usr/share/aclocal/jmax.m4:128: warning: underquoted
> > definition of AC_CHECK_JMAX_VERSION
> >   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
> >   or see
> > http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> 
> > Is there something that I am doing wrong? Any info
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> These messages are almost always harmless.  It looks like bootstrap is
> finishing ok otherwise--have you gone ahead and tried finishing the
> install/compile?

Until the deprecated feature breaks ;)

This one in particular is not one of ours, and shouldn't cause a problem.

> If it *really* bothers you, you can edit the /usr/share/aclocal/jmax.m4
> file (as root).  You'll see near the top an AC_DEFUN(xxx, ...) where
> 'xxx' is a macro name and '...' is all the rest of the line before the
> final parens.  Just put make this '[xxx]' by adding the brackets (don't
> put in the single quotes).  This change, however, will get overwritten
> the next time that package gets updated, until the author of the package
> fixes it.

The right answer is to submit a patch upstream to whomever maintains
jmax.m4.  I assume is has something to do with "jmax", whatever that
is ;)

Eric