Configure/buildconf/autoconf errors

Do this:

aclocal --print-ac-dir

This should show you the directory your various m4 macro files are in.
The fact that the AC_PROG_LIBTOOL macro is shown as undefined is a sign
that your autoconf/libtool stuff is completely misconfigured and don't
know about each other. Did you install one from source and the other from
a package or something? You should have a libtool.m4 file containing the
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL macro in that ac-dir that aclocal knows about.

So, basically, reinstall autoconf/automake/libtool correctly, and read up
on aclocal.

-Rasmus

I've always had this problem, but I figured it was just something I had to
learn to live with. However, this time I decided to submit it to see if it
was worth passing along as a bug.

Whenever I run ./buildconf, it tells me that I shouldn't run it in a release
package, so I try to run autoconf, which generates some errors, but a
configure file is still created, so I run ./configure, which always stops
with errors. Finally, I run ./buildconf --force and it throws out some
warnings but still creates a configure file that runs without any problems.

Is this how it's supposed to work?

I'm grabbing the source from CVS and compiling it on Fedora Core 2 with
autoconf verision 2.59 and libtool version 1.5.6. I had similar problems with
PHP-GTK 1.0.0, and Andrei had to change a few things around to get it updated
for my version of autoconf.

At any rate, it's not like it won't build, but these errors always appear
quirky.

Here's the output:

[root@orome php_5_0_1]# ./buildconf
You should not run buildconf in a release package.
use buildconf --force to override this check.
[root@orome php_5_0_1]# autoconf
configure.in:147: warning: AC_PROG_LEX invoked multiple times
autoconf/programs.m4:438: AC_DECL_YYTEXT is expanded from...
configure.in:147: the top level
configure.in:77: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.in:138: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_CHECKING
configure.in:143: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_RESULT
configure.in:192: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
configure.in:453: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_TRY_LINK
configure.in:587: error: possibly undefined macro: PHP_AC_BROKEN_SPRINTF
configure.in:588: error: possibly undefined macro: PHP_AC_BROKEN_SNPRINTF
configure.in:692: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
configure.in:1170: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
[root@orome php_5_0_1]# ./configure [options omitted from this posting]
./configure: line 42: syntax error near unexpected token Running' ./configure: line 42:PHP_CONFIGURE_PART(Running system checks)'
[root@orome php_5_0_1]# ./buildconf --force
Forcing buildconf
using default Zend directory
buildconf: checking installation...
buildconf: autoconf version 2.59 (ok)
buildconf: Your version of autoconf likely contains buggy cache code.
Running cvsclean for you.
To avoid this, install autoconf-2.13 and automake-1.5.
buildconf: libtool version 1.5.6 (ok)
rebuilding aclocal.m4
rebuilding configure
autoconf/programs.m4:438: AC_DECL_YYTEXT is expanded from...
configure.in:147: the top level
rebuilding acconfig.h
rebuilding main/php_config.h.in
autoheader: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as acconfig.h',config.h.bot'
autoheader: WARNING: and config.h.top', to define templates forconfig.h.in'
autoheader: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
autoheader:
autoheader: WARNING: Using the third argument of AC_DEFINE' and autoheader: WARNING:AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
autoheader: WARNING: acconfig.h': autoheader: autoheader: WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1, autoheader: [Define if a functionmain' is needed.])
autoheader:
autoheader: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see
the
autoheader: WARNING: documentation.
autoconf/programs.m4:438: AC_DECL_YYTEXT is expanded from...
configure.in:147: the top level

--
Regards,
Ben Ramsey
http://benramsey.com

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