Re: Cannot bootstrap bison

[Joel E. Denny]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Paul Hilfinger wrote:

> If running ./bootstrap fails with the following messages, what is the
> likely cause?  Using autoconf 2.61, automake 1.9.6, gettext 0.15 on

Those are the same versions I'm running.  Also, my Autoconf is invoking 
GNU M4 1.4.7.

> Solaris 10, i86pc.

I'm using Slackware 10.2.0 on an i686.

I just checked out Bison from CVS and ran bootstrap without trouble.

> ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out bison sources...
> ./bootstrap: getting translations into po for bison...
> 19:06:38 URL:http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html?domain=bison 
> [6256/6256] -> "po/bison.html" [1]
> awk: syntax error near line 1
> awk: bailing out near line 1
> ./bootstrap: getting translations into runtime-po for bison-runtime...
> 19:06:49 
> URL:http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html?domain=bison-runtime 
> [6256/6256] -> "runtime-po/bison-runtime.html" [1]
> awk: syntax error near line 1
> awk: bailing out near line 1

I don't recall ever seeing this error.

> configure.ac:99: warning: AM_LANGINFO_CODESET is m4_require'd but not 
> m4_defun'd
> m4/localcharset.m4:16: gl_LOCALCHARSET is expanded from...
> m4/gnulib-comp.m4:118: gl_INIT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:99: the top level
> configure.ac:99: warning: gl_GLIBC21 is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> ./bootstrap: autoconf --force ...
> configure.ac:99: warning: AM_LANGINFO_CODESET is m4_require'd but not 
> m4_defun'd
> m4/localcharset.m4:16: gl_LOCALCHARSET is expanded from...
> m4/gnulib-comp.m4:118: gl_INIT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:99: the top level
> configure.ac:99: warning: gl_GLIBC21 is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> configure.ac:109: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> m4/gettext.m4:362: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:109: the top level
> configure:9520: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_LANGINFO_CODESET
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure:9589: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_GLIBC21
> configure:16479: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR

This looks very much like the problem discussed in this thread:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2007-04/msg00000.html

Does that help any?