autoconf problem

[Michael McMahon]

On 16/07/13 14:42, Volker Simonis wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Tim Bell <tim.bell at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hi Michael:
>>
>>
>>> Since my latest sync of jdk8/cpu (today) I can't run configure. I get the
>>> following
>>> error:
>>
>> Looks like your merge touched some of the .m4 files
>> (common/autoconf/basics.m4 and common/autoconf/build-performance.m4 to name
>> two):
>>
>> Our standard guidance when this happens is to do your merge, and then run
>>
>> bash common/autoconf/autogen.sh
>>
>> to recreate the generated-configure.sh file(s).
>>
> That's right but you definitely need autoconf in order to do that (as
> indicated in the error).

Okay. Thanks!

> Notice that you don't necessarily need to run autoconf an the same
> system on which you want to run the generated configure script.
> If you have a shared workspace, you may for example install autoconf
> on a Linux machine and run autogeg.sh there. Afterwards you can run
> configure on any other system (i.e. Windows, Mac, Solaris..)
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>
>> Lastly, commit them as part of your merge.  If you have the closed repos,
>> there will be two of them.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>> $ bash ./configure
>>> Warning: The generated configure file contains changes not present in the
>>> custom generated file.
>>> Cannot locate autoconf, unable to correct situation.
>>> Please install autoconf and run 'bash autogen.sh' to update the generated
>>> files.
>>> Error: Cannot continue
>>> mm72272 at mm72272-ThinkPad-T420:/export/repos/jdk8-cpu$ bash ./configure
>>> --help
>>> Warning: The generated configure file contains changes not present in the
>>> custom generated file.
>>> Cannot locate autoconf, unable to correct situation.
>>> Please install autoconf and run 'bash autogen.sh' to update the generated
>>> files.
>>> Error: Cannot continue
>>>
>>> Now, I don't have "autoconf" installed but before I try and continue by
>>> installing it,
>>> I'd like to understand more why this is happening. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Michael
>>>