Hm, I haven't seen that error before. Through some cursory web searches on
"mac os x autoconf failed" it seems there is usually more information
associated with that error. Is this output coming from stdout/stderr or the
build log file?

Anyone have any ideas?

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Matt Taylor
OS Community Flag-Bearer
Numenta


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Justin Souter
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Trying to get a Mac OS build going. Using XCode5 on Mountain Lion
> (contrary to the OS X build docs, XCode5 runs fine on 10.8.5). The
> $NUPIC/build.sh step gave me some issues.
>
> First, autom4te could not be found, so I added a symlink in /usr/local/bin
> to its location in ../Cellar/autoconf/2.69/bin/autom4te, following the
> pattern of the symlinks for the other tools.
>
> Then another issue came up, which I haven't yet found a solution for. It's
> quitting on the autoconf step, though with different errors than I see in
> similar list posts. Here's my output:
>
> running libtoolize...
> glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR,
> `build_system/unix'.
> glibtoolize: copying file `build_system/unix/ltmain.sh'
> glibtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.acand
> glibtoolize: rerunning glibtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros
> in-tree.
> glibtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> running aclocal...
> running autoconf...
> Usage: autoconf [-h] [--help] [-m dir] [--macrodir=dir]
>        [-l dir] [--localdir=dir] [--version] [template-file]
> autoconf failed. Exiting
>
>
> So I've tried to add the AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR suggestion, not knowing the
> best place in the file, and I've added the ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS thing, neither
> of which helped my issue or silenced those suggestions from glibtoolize.
> Seems like autoconf doesn't like its arguments.
>
> My set up:
>
> Mac OS X 10.8.5
> XCode 5.0.2
> Python 2.7.2
> PIP 1.5.2
> Autoconf 2.13
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