Building LO fails with autogen

[Chris Sherlock]

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> On 29 Dec 2014, at 11:35 am, Will Entriken <fulldecent at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Jens Tröger <jens.troeger at light-speed.de> wrote:
>> 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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>> Jens Tröger
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