# Configure/buildconf/autoconf errors - Thread: https://externals.io/message/12155 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/12155 - Started by Ben Ramsey on 2004-08-14T02:47:10+00:00 - Messages: 2 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #12155 — Ben Ramsey — 2004-08-14T02:47:10+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/12155#12155 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 for `config.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 function `main' 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 --------------------------------------------------- http://www.phpcommunity.org/ Open Source, Open Community Visit for more information or to join the movement. --- ## #12159 — Rasmus Lerdorf — 2004-08-14T08:17:09+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/12155#12159 · In reply to: #12155 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 for > `config.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 function `main' 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > http://www.phpcommunity.org/ > Open Source, Open Community > Visit for more information or to join the movement.