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?
