Re: [wdiff-bugs] Problems making wdiff after updating to 0.5g

[Denver Gingerich]

On 6/19/07, Dan Hipschman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 05:19:42PM -0400, Denver Gingerich wrote:
> > The problem is that make does not work the first time around (this is
> > after doing a ./configure without any apparent errors):
> >
> > $ make
> > cd . && aclocal -I m4
> > m4/realloc.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of jm_FUNC_REALLOC
> > m4/realloc.m4:13:   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
> > m4/realloc.m4:13:   or see
> > http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> > m4/gettext.m4:89: warning: macro `AM_LC_MESSAGES' not found in library
> > cd . && automake --gnits --include-deps Makefile
> > cd . && autoconf
> > configure:7695: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_LC_MESSAGES
> >      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> >      See the Autoconf documentation.
> > make: *** [configure] Error 1
> > $
>
> Just a total stab in the dark: I've seen similar errors when trying to
> build other projects with a too old version of m4.  Unfortunately, I
> believe the version of m4 in the ubuntu repo falls into this category.
> I would try building the latest version of m4 from source and trying
> again with that.  I also seem to remember that simply putting it in your
> path isn't good enough and that you have to set an environment variable
> (M4=/path/to/m4, I believe).  If this works, stick a comment in the
> README file saying what the lowest required version of m4 is.  If this
> doesn't work, then I don't really think I can help you.  I don't have
> time to play with the source, at the moment.

That shouldn't be necessary because wdiff-0.5g builds fine with the
same versions of m4, automake, etc. that cause 0.5.4-pre1 to fail and
0.5.4-pre1 is essentially just 0.5g with the FSF address and other
comments updated (this is not quite right, but I'll address that in
another thread).

I appreciate your suggestion, though.

Denver