autogen.sh problem on icedtea tip

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/10/28 Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>:
> Eric,
>
> I don't know what the real cause of the problem is, but I found that if I
> down graded my autoconf to 2.61 or 2.62 the problem went a way (I was using
> 2.64).  On my Leopard install 2.61 is the default, but I had 2.64 from
> MacPorts, so I changed my path around to run autogen.sh and it worked.  On
> Haiku I replace 2.64 with 2.62 and it worked.
>
> Michael
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Eric Richardson <ekrichardson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having a really basic problem after ports update on Mac OS X.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> eric$ ./autogen.sh
>> configure:1657: error: possibly undefined macro: _m4_text_wrap_word
>>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>> m4_pattern_allow.
>>       See the Autoconf documentation.
>> autoreconf: autoconf failed with exit status: 1
>>
>> I found this message and went through several diffs in the icedtea repo
>> but found nothing suspect.
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-autoconf@gnu.org/msg02410.html
>>
>> $ autoconf --version
>> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.64
>>
>> $ libtool --version
>> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6
>>
>> $ automake --version
>> automake (GNU automake) 1.11
>>
>
>

FWIW, I'm on 2.63 on my GNU/Linux box here.  I haven't heard any
reports of issues with 2.64 though.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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