Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:06:12PM CEST: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/19/2009 11:51 AM: > > +configure:2218: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_PACKAGE_YEAR > > > > where this is the configure section being complained about: > > > > Copyright (C) m4_PACKAGE_YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > I've seen this as well, when lib/m4sugar/version.m4 is not up-to-date. I > think we may have a missing dependency, where incremental builds do not > recreate the file correctly. For me, 'rm lib/m4sugar/version.m4' followed > by 'make' seemed to clear it up.
Hmm, that's actually disconcerting; but thank you for the hint, that solved my problem at least: Makefile.in rebuilding was skipped because the needed automake version was not found, and the old Makefile.in never caused m4_PACKAGE_YEAR to be defined. (This was from a git tree.) Cheers, Ralf
