Frank Guthausen <fg.gn...@shimps.de> writes: > Hello Daniel. > > I don't know much about Parabola but can provide some > hints from the Debian world, which lead to an educated > guess. > > On Thu, 08 May 2025 21:06:05 +0100 > Daniel Cerqueira <dan....@lispclub.com> wrote: >> >> My AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX is at /usr/share/gettext/m4/lib-prefix.m4 , >> which comes with the gettext package. Which was already installed. > > $ apt-file find lib-prefix.m4 > gettext: /usr/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4 > >> I still get the same error, when compiling pinentry from the official >> tarball: >> [...] >> $ ./autogen.sh >> autogen.sh: Running aclocal -I m4 ... >> autogen.sh: Running autoheader... >> autogen.sh: Running automake --gnu ... >> autogen.sh: Running autoconf ... >> configure.ac:341: warning: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX is m4_require'd but >> not m4_defun'd > > Without gettext installed, I can reproduce this warning. > >> configure:9869: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX >> If this token and others are legitimate, please use >> m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. >> configure:9870: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_RPATH >> configure:9875: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY >> configure:9883: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_APPENDTOVAR > > I cannot reproduce these errors. > >> $ ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode >> [...] >> ./configure: line 9875: syntax error near unexpected token `iconv' >> ./configure: line 9875: ` AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY(iconv)' > > Without gettext installed, I can reproduce this error (with a different > line number). > > When I install gettext and run autogen.sh again, the warning doesn't > show up again and the obtained configure script doesn't throw any > errors anymore. > >> Can someone tell me if is just my system that gets this error? > > My guess is: despite having gettext installed, the autogen.sh > script doesn't know the location where the required data is > installed on your system. This leads to effects similar as if > gettext wasn't installed at all. > > The next step would be to figure out the reason why the gettext data > seems to be unknown, which might require some better knowledge of > Parabola than I can provide.
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