Building on RHEL

[David Holmes]

Hi Dave,

autoconf 2.69 is supposed to be minimal supported version for OpenJDK build.

David

On 20/01/2015 2:45 AM, Dave Pointon wrote:
> ​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
>>