Autoconf failed to generate scripts for ntfsprogs [yura@pc299 ntfsprogs-build]$ ./autogen.sh Running autoreconf --verbose --install autoreconf-default: Entering directory `.' autoreconf-default: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf-default: running: aclocal --force autoreconf-default: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf-default: running: libtoolize --copy --force autoreconf-default: running: /usr/bin/autoconf-2.5 --force configure.ac:147: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:149: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN autoreconf-default: /usr/bin/autoconf-2.5 failed with exit status: 1 **Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments. If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the `./autogen.sh' command line. Running ./configure ... configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../.. [yura@pc299 ntfsprogs-build]$ automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.9.5 [...] [yura@pc299 ntfsprogs-build]$ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59 [..] Steps to Reproduce: 1. download ntfsprogs sources 2. run autogen.sh from package root source Actual Results: error: configure.ac:147: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. Expected Results: generated confugure files
AC_MSG_ERROR works for me, so it looks like ntfsprogs-specific issue, probably quotation error in its configure.ac file.
Not reproducible with ntfsprogs 1.11.2 and autoconf_2.5-2.59-alt4. Btw, configure.ac:147 doesn't contain any macros.
Autoconf reports about error and warning in lines 137 and 139 respectively with ntfsprogs 1.11.2. It seems that meesage from autoconf is incorrect, in fact problem was in missing pkg-config package. autoconf started work properly after I had installed it. Sorry for noise.
autoconf is not aware of pkg-config.
configire.ac from ntfsprogs use PKG_CHECK_MODULES, thus generation depends on pkg-config
(In reply to comment #5) > configire.ac from ntfsprogs use PKG_CHECK_MODULES, thus generation depends on > pkg-config I don't understand your problem. ntfsprogs compiles normally without calling autoreconf or autogen.sh.
No problem at present. I just said that autoconf message is obfuscating after I had discovered where real problem was.
