Ok... you found the problem - no autoconf or automake present. I must have missed them on my last OS install .. it's a pity the error wasn't a bit more obvious. Sorry to waste your time .. at least I can rework the xattr patch against git now. cheers
On Thursday, 6 November 2014, 22:05, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: On 11/06/2014 11:51 AM, KillBoy PowerHed wrote: > ++ autom4te --no-cache --language=Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 > '--trace=AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION:$%' - configure.ac > + xver= Differs here. Next test: $ which autom4te /usr/bin/autom4te $ rpm -qf `which autom4te` autoconf-2.69-14.fc20.noarch $ echo 'm4_pushdef([m4_assert]) m4_pushdef([m4_fatal]) m4_pushdef([m4_warn]) m4_pushdef([m4_errprintn]) m4_pushdef([m4_exit]) m4_pushdef([m4_include]) m4_pushdef([m4_esyscmd]) m4_define([AM_GNU_GETTEXT],[]) m4_define([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION],[])' | \ autom4te --debug --verbose --no-cache \ --language=Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 \ --trace=AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION':$%' - configure.ac That output will include something like: autom4te: formatting traces for `/tmp/am4twMnHut/warnings': _m4_warn In that temp directory are several files; show me: $ tail /tmp/am4twMnHuT/traces.0 m4trace:configure.ac:184: -1- m4_pattern_allow([^CLOSEDIR_VOID$]) m4trace:configure.ac:189: -1- m4_pattern_allow([^HAVE_GETMNTENT$]) m4trace:configure.ac:190: -1- m4_pattern_allow([^HAVE_GETMNTENT$]) m4trace:configure.ac:200: -1- m4_pattern_allow([^HAVE_SETGROUPS$]) m4trace:configure.ac:225: -1- AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.1]) m4trace:configure.ac:231: -1- m4_pattern_allow([^FINDUTILS$]) m4trace:configure.ac:232: -1- m4_pattern_allow([^ALREADY_INCLUDED_CONFIG_H$]) m4trace:configure.ac:237: -1- m4_pattern_allow([^FAKETIME$]) m4trace:configure.ac:265: -1- m4_pattern_allow([^LIB@&t@OBJS$]) m4trace:configure.ac:265: -1- m4_pattern_allow([^LTLIBOBJS$]) -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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