[pacman-dev] Build issues with the maint branch of pacman

[Xavier]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
<ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> wrote:
>    Hello all!
>
>    While trying to build (a patched version) of the latest maint
> branch in the Git repository I get the following error:
>
> ~~~~
> $ autoconf
>
> configure.ac:60: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>      See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:128: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> configure.ac:132: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
> configure.ac:133: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
> configure.ac:155: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
> ~~~~
>
>    (My patch is only adding a git-dlagent script, and is not touching
> otherwise the configure.ac file.)
>
>    Any ideas? (I'm using the latest up-to-date version of ArchLinux.)
>

Did you install the base-devel group ? This contains automake, which
might be what you are missing here.
But you should install base-devel to build stuff.