[gst-devel] Error in generating "configure" using autoconf for a development version of gstreamer core from git

[Edward Hervey]

Use autogen.sh

On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:20 -0800, yiliang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I downloaded a development version from git. It does not have "configure",
> so I ran autoconf trying to generating it from configure.ac, but I got the
> following error messages:
> 
> configure.ac:12: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:15: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_VERSION
> configure.ac:18: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_NANO
> configure.ac:24: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
> configure.ac:26: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
> configure.ac:51: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_LIBTOOL
> configure.ac:58: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
> configure.ac:59: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
> configure.ac:64: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_AUTOTOOLS_ALTERNATE
> configure.ac:71: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
> configure.ac:72: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
> configure.ac:78: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
> configure.ac:219: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O
> configure.ac:222: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AS
> configure.ac:245: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_PATH_PYTHON
> configure.ac:251: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_LIBM
> configure.ac:340: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_COMPILER_FLAG
> configure.ac:590: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_AC_EXPAND
> 
> I tried on "gstreamer-a184419ec5514a9fe804e69cf8bc51eba08b6f84" and a few
> other versions, and all got the same issue.
> 
> How can I fix the problem or what is the right way of generating
> "configure"?
> 
> Thanks,
> Yiliang
>