Building LO fails with autogen

[Jens Tröger]

Thank you, Miklos,

> > Using 
> > 
> >   autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
> >   automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1
> > 
> > still gives that same error
> > 
> >   configure.ac:111: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_CHECKING
> >         If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> >         See the Autoconf documentation.
> > 
> > Should I use 1.13.4 exactly?
> 
> autoconf-2.69 works fine for me. Note that we do not require automake
> for building LO (when patching externals, we intentionally patch
> Makefile.in files as well when patching Makefile.ams to avoid this
> dependency). Maybe check with your distro what can be the problem?
> 
> AC_MSG_CHECKING is probably used in every configure.ac, in LO's case,
> it's used 300+ times, so it's not a corner-case. ;-)

Here is my autoconf:

  libreoffice-4.3.5.2 > autoconf --version
  autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
  Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

The source tree is the official tar unpacked, fresh and virgin without
any modifications.  Here's what happens:

  libreoffice-4.3.5.2 > ./autogen.sh --without-java --enable-headless --with-theme=no
  configure.ac:111: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_CHECKING
        If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
        See the Autoconf documentation.
  configure.ac:117: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_RESULT
  configure.ac:217: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
  configure.ac:287: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
  configure.ac:3426: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_SOURCE
  configure.ac:3928: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_PUSH
  configure.ac:3941: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_POP
  configure.ac:8175: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_RUN_IFELSE
  Failed to run autoconf at ./autogen.sh line 157.

This is on a Gentoo Linux system.  I am not sure what that error message
means, and looking up "m4_pattern_allow" I found this note:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2010-01/msg00050.html

Do you know what's happening here?
Jens

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