On Oct 9, 2010, at 23:20, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 09-10-2010 14:33:09 +0200, Jan Rittinger wrote: >> >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 08:16, Fabian Groffen wrote: >> >>> On 09-10-2010 00:24:24 +0200, Jan Rittinger wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I got the following error message due to a missing pkg-config >>>> installation—Perhaps there could be a better error message: >>> >>> Did you get errors from bootstrap? configure should never hold the >>> m4 macros. >> >> No errors with respect to pkg-config: >> >> $ ./bootstrap >> ... >> configure.in:166: warning: macro `AM_ICONV' not found in library >> patching file aclocal.m4 >> Hunk #1 succeeded at 439 (offset -5947 lines). >> configure.in:166: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_ICONV >> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. >> See the Autoconf documentation. >> >> I'm also a little bit puzzled that you ask about m4 as the exact line >> 'PKG_CHECK_MODULES(monetdbtools, monetdb-stream...' is already in >> configure.ag. > > Please just install pkg-config, and it's m4 macro that comes with it > (-devel?) > And also consider isntalling gettext(-devel?), to get the necessary > AM_ICONV macro.
Fabian, that's where my mail started from. Installing pkg-config got the intial strange error message sorted out. I was just wondering that pkg-config itself is not checked by configure (to give a more useful error message). As to AM_ICONV—this seems to be not optional as a call to AM_ICONV still resides in the generated configure file... -- Jan Rittinger Lehrstuhl Datenbanken und Informationssysteme Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen http://www-db.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/team/rittinger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Monetdb-developers mailing list Monetdb-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-developers
