On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:53:27PM -0400, Lubbers, Dave H. wrote:
> The error:
> error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest
> occurs when I do a ./bootstrap which uses aclocal.
> The popdef is in a for_each loop in status.m4 where there is a pushdef at the
> top of the loop and a popdef at the bottom of the loop. An identical loop is
> found in autoconf.m4f.
> Are there any patches for this?
> redhat enterprise 4 / autoconf 2.59
> The internet has zillions of posts about this error but I was not able to
> discern a direct answer to any of them.
This problem is usually caused by a `dnl' in a quoted argument to
AC_CONFIG_FILES or AC_OUTPUT, like this:
AC_CONFIG_FILES([
Makefile
dnl foo/Makefile
bar/Makefile
])
You can delete the dnl'ed lines, and that should fix things. If your problem is
different, please post `configure.ac' or `configure.in'.
CVS Autoconf will not report an error in this case, but `configure' will fail:
$ ./configure
./configure: line 1595: syntax error near unexpected token `;;'
./configure: line 1595: `echo "$as_me: WARNING: Cache variable $ac_var contains
a newline." >&2;} ;;'
