Building on RHEL

[Dave Pointon]

​Hi again all ,

JIC it's of any interest, I've downloaded, built ​and subsequently used
up-levelled versions of autoconf & m4 (to 2.69 & 1.4.16) - at which point
the aforementioned problem disappears. It should be noted that no such
problem was observed on Ubuntu.

--
Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS

Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the
cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it -
Robinson Crusoe

On 19 January 2015 at 15:01, Dave Pointon <pointo1d at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all ,
>
> Having just taken an RHEL 6.5 update on my laptop, I'm no longe able to
> run the build - I see the following error ...
>
> Autoconf found: /usr/bin/autoconf
> Generating generated-configure.sh with /usr/bin/autoconf
> stdin:35: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
> stdin:35: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
>
> From some Googling results, I notice that similar errors have been
> encountered elsewhere (none of which are OpenJDK related) and appears to be
> symptomatic of a version mis-match between autoconf and m4 - however, given
> I'm running the autoconf/m4 combination of v2.63/v1.4.13, which had
> previously worked, I wondered if there are any wise souls out there who
> might be able to point me in the right direction for a solution WRT OpenJDK.
>
>
> Many TIA ,
> --
> Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS
>
> Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count
> the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it
> - Robinson Crusoe
>