Re: bison-2.6.1 doesn't build on Solaris 8

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Paul.

On 07/31/2012 05:43 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
> Alas, the git master doesn't build for me.  When I
> try to check it out and run './bootstrap' (this is
> on Fedora 15, by the way, not Solaris) it fails
> with the tail end of the log being as follows:
> 
> prefix=lib/
> running: AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true  autoreconf --verbose --install 
> --no-recursive -I m4 
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: running: true
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 -I m4
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /home/eggert/opt/Linux-x86_64/autoconf-2.69/bin/autoconf 
> --include=m4
> configure.ac:125: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_GNU_M4
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> autoreconf: /home/eggert/opt/Linux-x86_64/autoconf-2.69/bin/autoconf failed 
> with exit status: 1
> ./bootstrap: autoreconf failed
> 
> 
This used to happen to me as well.  You should run "git submodule init" and/or
"git submodule update" explicitly after the first clone of the Bison repo.

HTH,
  Stefano