Re: git head fails to build

[Neil Jerram]

2009/1/14 Greg Troxel <address@hidden>:
> It does a git pull, adds autobuild stuff, and then builds and mails to
> the server:
>
> http://autobuild.josefsson.org/guile/
>
> but I can reproduce this with
>
> autoconf -I m4
>
> The issue seems to be that gl_LOCALCHARSET is used but not defined.

OK, I've now committed m4/localcharset.m4, and modified m4/.gitignore
which was incorrectly ignoring that file.  Can you try again now?

>
> Also, autogen.sh is awkward on NetBSD because traditional m4 is in
> /usr/bin/m4 and the gnu extended version as /usr/pkg/bin/m4.  I think
> that's actually fine when it runs because autoconf found it when the
> autoconf package was built, but the m4 --version fails because --version
> is a gnu extension.

That's why autogen.sh honours the M4 environment variable...

Regards,
        Neil