Re: Installing Bison from CVS

[Hans Aberg]

On 28 Apr 2007, at 03:43, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > I get the following error:
> > ./bootstrap: autoconf --force ...
> > configure.ac:111: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not  
> > m4_defun'd
> > m4/gettext.m4:362: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
> > configure.ac:111: the top level
> > configure:15873: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR
> >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use  
> > m4_pattern_allow.
> >       See the Autoconf documentation.
>
> The last couple of times this came up, it was due to an old M4.  For
> example, Autoconf 2.61 requires at least M4 1.4.7.

I updates M4 from 1.4.7 to 1.4.9, and the problem persisted. I use  
Autoconf 2.61. (I also updated to Automake 1.9.6.) I checked versions  
(using --version) from the console I ran ./bootstrap (as root).

> > Which is the "official" method to get Bison from the CVS? On
> >   http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=bison
> > it is suggested
> >   cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/bison  
> > co bison
> > followed, I gather, by
> >   cd bison
> >   ./bootstrap
> > Is this right?
>
> That's what I do.

And this was the method I used, to be sure I am doing the same thing  
as you. I run Mac OS X, version 10.4.9 (latest), which usually has  
very old GNU software. Are there any other Bison dependencies I might  
have overlooked?

  Hans Aberg