Re: [Bug-gnubg] Problem compiling gnubg in RHEL 5

[Stelios Togias]

Christian Anthon wrote:
> Hi Stelios,
>
> sorry to not respond faster. It seems like something is amiss on your
> system, or perhaps your copy of gnubg isn't clean for some reason.
>
> I still have the feeling that it is the first part. Do you have a file called:
>
> /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4
>
> You could also download a clean copy to an empty directory using cvs:
>
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/gnubg co gnubg
>
> Christian.
>   
Hi Cristian,

I'm pretty much convinced something is missing from my system as well.
I check the

/usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4

and it is there.

I donwloaded a new version from CVS and still have the same error:(

Finally I've run:
address@hidden gnubg]# autoconf -v -d
autoconf: running /usr/local/bin/autom4te -v -d --language=autoconf 
--output=configure configure.in
autom4te: formatting traces for `/tmp/am4tO12149/dependencies': include, 
m4_include
autom4te: up_to_date (autom4te.cache/traces.1): up to date
autom4te: the trace request object is:
autom4te: $VAR1 = bless( [
autom4te:                  '1',
autom4te:                  1,
autom4te:                  [
autom4te:                    '/usr/local/share/autoconf'
autom4te:                  ],
autom4te:                  [
autom4te:                    
'/usr/local/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f',
autom4te:                    'aclocal.m4',
autom4te:                    'configure.in'
autom4te:                  ],
autom4te:                  {
autom4te:                    'AM_PROG_F77_C_O' => 1,
autom4te:                    '_LT_AC_TAGCONFIG' => 1,
autom4te:                    'm4_pattern_forbid' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_INIT' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CANONICAL_TARGET' => 1,
autom4te:                    '_AM_COND_IF' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_SUBST' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CANONICAL_HOST' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_FC_SRCEXT' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION' => 1,
autom4te:                    'LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CONFIG_LINKS' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE' => 1,
autom4te:                    'LT_SUPPORTED_TAG' => 1,
autom4te:                    'm4_sinclude' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_MAINTAINER_MODE' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR' => 1,
autom4te:                    '_m4_warn' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_PROG_CXX_C_O' => 1,
autom4te:                    '_AM_COND_ENDIF' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CONFIG_FILES' => 1,
autom4te:                    'include' => 1,
autom4te:                    'LT_INIT' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_LIBSOURCE' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_PROG_FC_C_O' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CANONICAL_BUILD' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_FC_FREEFORM' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AH_OUTPUT' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR' => 1,
autom4te:                    '_AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' => 1,
autom4te:                    'm4_pattern_allow' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_PROG_CC_C_O' => 1,
autom4te:                    'sinclude' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AM_CONDITIONAL' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_DEFINE_TRACE_LITERAL' => 1,
autom4te:                    'm4_include' => 1,
autom4te:                    '_AM_COND_ELSE' => 1,
autom4te:                    'AC_SUBST_TRACE' => 1
autom4te:                  }
autom4te:                ], 'Autom4te::Request' );
autom4te: formatting traces for `/tmp/am4tO12149/warnings': _m4_warn
autom4te: reading /tmp/am4tO12149/warnings

I've observed there is no AC_MSG_ERROR or AC_MSG_WARN in this 
trace...Not sure if that means much.
I'm thinking or reinstalling the system (adding more libraries this time 
upon installation) and trying again.
Just to be sure, the "normal" procedure to install GNUBG is
autoconf   
./configure
make
make install

   OR

./autogen.sh
.....

what's the difference anyway?

Thanks for your efforts.
Stelios
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Stelios Togias <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > Christian Anthon wrote:
> >     
> > > > + autoconf
> > > > configure.in:101: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
> > > >    If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> > > >    See the Autoconf documentation.
> > > > configure.in:102: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
> > > >
> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Can you suggest a good tutorial to start understanding the build process?
> > > > this "It might be that the files are in an inconsistent state" is
> > > > confusing
> > > > to me...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > I could, but autoconf/automake is not really something you want to
> > > learn unless you have to. What I meant was that you might have a
> > > configure built with different versions of the tools.
> > >
> > > a) do you have pkg-config installed
> > > b) If that is the case: Could you try to remove the [] around the
> > > AC_MSG_ERROR and AC_MSG_WARN statements in line 101, 102 of
> > > configure.in and around the other calls to PKG_CHECK_MODULES and see
> > > if that helps.
> > >
> > > Christian.
> > >
> > >       
> > I do have pkg-config installed. version: 0.21
> >
> > I removed the [] from the PKG_CHECK_MODULES,
> > well from around AC_MSG_ERROR, AC_MSG_WARN
> > there were no other type of messages anyway (are these macros?)
> >
> > anyway now ./autogen.sh passes
> > but ./configure gives error:
> > ./configure: line 12198: syntax error near unexpected token `GLIB,'
> > ./configure: line 12198: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB, glib-2.0 >= 2.6.0, , { {
> > $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: \"You need to have glib2 to compile GNU
> > backgammon\"" >&5'
> >
> > btw I've trying with this version as well: gnubg-0.9.0-1.tar.gz
> > but same behaviour...
> >
> > well apart from learning a specific tool, learning in general the building
> > process
> > in linux would help. now I don't even now what/where to look for...
> >
> > thanks
> > stelios
> >
> >