pinfo build fails with undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Tue Apr 11 23:51:26 GMT 2023


> On Apr 11 09:21, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > I'm trying to rebuild pinfo 0.6.13. That's the current version in Cygwin, so I
> > know I was able to build it successfully a couple of years ago. But now when I
> > try, the build fails with 
> > 
> > error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR
> 
> Check configure.ac which version of autotools is required.  There's a
> good chance you need autoconf 2.69.  You can probably fix that problem
> in the cygport file by adding
> 
>   WANT_AUTOCONF="2.5"

Thanks. I tried several different values of WANT_AUTOCONF and WANT_AUTOMAKE, but
they didn't help. From what I can tell, AM_INTL_SUBDIR is just gone from
automake now. 

So I removed the call to AM_INTL_SUBDIR, and that build problem is fixed. Anyway
thanks for pointing me in a direction.

Andrew



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