[Flac-dev] Re: 0.9 problems

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:19:39PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> Christian Weisgerber <naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:
> 
> > Problems in FLAC 0.9:
> 
> Also:
> 
> ===>  Building for flac-0.9
> cd . && aclocal
> aclocal: configure.in: 7: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
> aclocal: configure.in: 22: macro `AM_PATH_XMMS' not found in library
> gmake: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
> 
> That is, if I touch configure.in I must have libtool and XMMS
> installed.  This doesn't seem right.  Should AM_PROG_LIBTOOL and
> AM_PATH_XMMS be shipped in acinclude.m4?

These macros are supplied by aclocal.m4, which is automatically generated by
aclocal(1) from automake.  If you modify configure.in, automake will re-run
aclocal to pull in any new macros that might be referenced in configure.in.

This is a good thing, as it keeps the macros in aclocal.m4 fresh, and ensures
that newly used ones will be included there.  In my opinion, the bug is that
aclocal is failing when the required macros are already defined in the current
aclocal.m4.  You should be able to work around this by touching aclocal.m4
after editing configure.in.

Off to file a bug against automake...

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 - mdz