On Monday, 28 October 2013, at 12:32:55 (-0700),
Nancy Kritkausky wrote:
> I am getting the following error when I run ./autogen.sh
>
> [sulu] (slurm) master> ./autogen.sh
> + rm -fr 'autom4te*.cache'
> + aclocal -I auxdir
> + libtoolize --automake --copy --force
> + autoheader
> + automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
> ++ autoconf --force --warnings=no-obsolete
> configure.ac:7: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_esyscmd_s
> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> See the Autoconf documentation.
> + exit 1
>
> Can someone help me with this? I know I have add a similar problem before,
> but I can't remember how I fixed it. I think I am just missing a package,
> but I don't know which one.
This is due to an m4 macro having been added which is not portable to
older ("stable" or "legacy" depending on your perspective) versions of
the GNU autotools.
I've just sent a pull request which fixes this for RHEL5/RHEL6
systems.
Here's the diff:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f361813..26cc311 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
dnl Prologue
dnl
+m4_define([m4_chomp_all],
+[m4_format([[%.*s]], m4_bregexp(m4_translit([[$1]], [
+/], [/ ]), [/*$]), [$1])])
+
+m4_define([m4_esyscmd_s], [m4_chomp_all(m4_esyscmd([$1]))])
+
AC_INIT(slurm, m4_esyscmd_s([perl -ne 'print,exit if
s/^\s*VERSION:\s*(\S*).*/\1/i' ./META]), [[email protected]], [],
[http://slurm.schedmd.com])
AC_PREREQ(2.59)
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([configure.ac])
HTH,
Michael
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