Hi Ross - I tried to again to reproduce your AC_RUN_LOG leftover after autoreconf, following your original report at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-02/msg00037.html and followups over the last couple of months.
Downloaded intltool from https://launchpad.net/intltool/+download and unpacked: wget https://launchpad.net/intltool/trunk/0.51.0/+download/intltool-0.51.0.tar.gz tar xf intltool-0.51.0.tar.gz I'm using autoconf-2.72, since the url for your patches for autoconf-2.72e is now "path not found": https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/autoconf/autoconf_2.72e.bb $ autoconf --version | sed 1q autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.72 Ran automake 1.17: $ automake-1.17 --version | sed 1q automake (GNU automake) 1.17 $ automake-1.17 I get expected warnings about using a different version of autoconf and automake than the intltools tarball. I presume you get them too: aclocal.m4:17: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.69. You have another version of autoconf. It may work, but is not guaranteed to. If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system entirely. To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically 'autoreconf'. configure.ac:7: error: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.17, configure.ac:7: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.ac:7: comes from Automake 1.14.1. You should run Fine. Using automake-1.17.92 (*), run autoreconf (no output): $ PATH=/tmp/am92/bin:$PATH automake --version | sed 1q automake (GNU automake) 1.17.92 $ PATH=/tmp/am92/bin:$PATH autoreconf Observe that AM_RUN_LOG is not in the generated configure: $ \grep AM_RUN config* And it is in aclocal.m4: $ \grep AM_RUN config* $ \grep AM_RUN * aclocal.m4:# AM_RUN_LOG(COMMAND) aclocal.m4:AC_DEFUN([AM_RUN_LOG], .. ./configure && make also runs fine, not surprisingly. It would appear the problem is specific to your environment. Perhaps to your patched autoconf, perhaps to your config.site, perhaps to something else. If you can find a way that someone other than you can reproduce, we can look into it further. Otherwise, I plan to make the automake release in a few days. Thanks, Karl (*) Created the automake-1.17.92 installation in the usual way: tar xf automake-1.17.92.tar.xz ./configure --prefix=/tmp/am92 make && make install
