buildconf fails on current HEAD

Thanks Jani, I have using the same machine with Autoconf V2.59 since 2007
and it use to work :(. I shall get the autoconf-2.13. installed and check.
thanks.

with Regards,
Raghubansh

Raghubansh wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to build PHP6 (checked out a while from CVS - HEAD) and found
that ./buildconf fails. Following are the failure messages :

[kraghuba@localhost php6]$ ./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.
rebuilding configure
Zend/acinclude.m4:1095: error: m4_defn: undefined macro:
_m4_divert_diversion
aclocal.m4:1102: PHP_CHECK_SIZEOF is expanded from...
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
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 functionmain' is needed.])
autoheader:
autoheader: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced,
see
the
autoheader: WARNING: documentation.
Zend/acinclude.m4:1095: error: m4_defn: undefined macro:
_m4_divert_diversion
aclocal.m4:1102: PHP_CHECK_SIZEOF is expanded from...
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
autoheader: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1

Am i doing something wrong ? or something is broken ?

Yes, you're using buggy autoconf. Install autoconf 2.13 and it works.
In most linux distros you can install multiple versions. Then you can use
the PHP_AUTOCONF and PHP_AUTOHEADER macros to point to the version
you wish to use, f.e.:

PHP_AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.13
PHP_AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.13
export PHP_AUTOCONF PHP_AUTOHEADER

--Jani

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with Regards,
Raghubansh