Building from repo generates an error message and fails.

[George R Goffe]

Niels,

Thank you for responding. The autoconf is a locally built program, installed in a separate toolchain. It reports itself as:

aclocal --version
   188 aclocal (GNU automake) 1.18.1
   189 Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   190 License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
   191 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
   192 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I will run the build without this local toolchain and report back to you. Ok?

Beat regards,

George...







On Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 01:13:12 PM PDT, Niels Möller <nisse at lysator.liu.se> wrote: 





George R Goffe <grgoffe at yahoo.com> writes:

> When running the configure script I get error messages that I don't
> know how to deal with. Perhaps this is a bug?
>  
> Here are the messages:
>
> ./.bootstrap

That's not the configure script...


> + ./.bootstrap
> configure.ac:2743: error: AC_REQUIRE(): cannot be used outside of an AC_DEFUN'd macro
> configure.ac:2743: the top level


I haven't seen this. In my copy of configure.ac (I'm at revision
b54d1f94b4ee, but it looks like latest change to this file was many
months ago), I see no AC_REQUIRE near line 2743 in configure.ac. So I
have no idea why it's failing like that. Which version of autoconf are
you using?

Regards,
/Niels

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