[vlc-devel] configure error on OS X -> now ./bootstrap error

Jan Winter jwinter at gmx.net
Sat Sep 10 12:47:45 CEST 2011


Hi,

sorry to bother you again:

I installed pkgconfig as suggested, reset the git repository and followed all compilation steps again, now I get many warnings and finally an error in the second ./bootstrap operation:

configure.ac:1: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:31: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_SILENT_RULES
configure.ac:38: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF
configure.ac:62: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
configure.ac:96: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_HELP_STRING
configure.ac:110: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_CHECKING
configure.ac:125: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_RESULT
configure.ac:173: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
configure.ac:247: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ARG_ENABLE
configure.ac:429: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PREPROC_IFELSE
configure.ac:484: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_SOURCE
configure.ac:504: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_LIB
configure.ac:767: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS
configure.ac:913: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_PUSH
configure.ac:915: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_POP
configure.ac:1620: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
configure.ac:1647: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROGS
configure.ac:2199: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADER
configure.ac:3427: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROG
configure.ac:4277: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CONFIG_FILES
configure.ac:4362: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_COND_IF
configure:30758: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_n
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

any hints?

Thanks
Jan


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