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

[Ciprian Dorin, Craciun]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

    Yes they are installed. (I've reinstalled them to the same outcome.)