Re: [Help-source-highlight] Support for Google Protocol Buffers protobuf language (.proto)

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Dear Joel

don't excuse yourself, it was my fault to leave around autogen.sh which 
is quite old and I haven't been using it for years myself: I'll remove 
it asap :)

and many thanks for your patch with proto language definition file.  By 
the way, many compliments for the way you wrote the patch: together with 
all modifications to the configuration files and with the test for the 
test suite, well done indeed :)

cheers
        Lorenzo

Joel Smith wrote:
> Sorry for replying to myself, but I figured out what was preventing my 
> builds.
>
> Joel Smith wrote:
> > Additionally, I wanted to mention that the code checked out of git 
> > wouldn't build for me until I added the following two lines to the 
> > configure.ac:
> >
> > m4_include([m4/ax_boost_base.m4])
> > m4_include([m4/ax_boost_regex.m4])
> >
> > I'm not sure if there is something wrong with my installation or what, 
> > but without those, autoconf didn't expand macros properly and the 
> > resulting configure script wouldn't run.
> Since I wrote my original message to the list, I noticed the docs say 
> the following:
>
> > When you compile the sources that you get from the git repository, 
> > before running the |configure| and |make| commands, for the first 
> > time, you must run the command:
> >
> >      autoreconf -i
> >  
> > This will run the autotools commands in the correct order, and also 
> > copy possibly missing files. You should have installed recent versions 
> > of |automake|, |autoconf| and |libtool| in order for this to succeed.
> After checking out from git, I saw that there was an autogen.sh, so I 
> just ran that, and ended up in the state where the boost m4 files 
> weren't being included.  Running "autoreconf -i" instead, as the docs 
> say, works fine.  So perhaps the autogen.sh script ought to be removed, 
> or changed to run autoreconf instead so people won't end up in the same 
> boat as me.
>
> And in case anyone in the future is searching for the solution, perhaps 
> the search engines will lead them to this message if I provide the error 
> message I was getting:
>
> ./configure: line 15756: syntax error near unexpected token `1.33.1'
> ./configure: line 15756: `AX_BOOST_BASE(1.33.1)'

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