On Wed, 2021-09-29 at 22:15 -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > > Autotools needs m4 macros in autoreconf-archive to config for gcov and > other dependencies or build fails with e.g. > > "configure.ac:33: error: possibly undefined macro: AX_CODE_COVERAGE > If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. > See the Autoconf documentation." > > CI scallywag setup does not install nor does cygport nor autoconf > require autoconf-archive so packages have to include in BUILD_REQUIRES. > > As autoconf requires: autoconf2.1 autoconf2.5 bash sed, I believe that > would be the more appropriate place for an autoconf-archive requirement, > otherwise cygport would have to require it, which is not so obvious.
autoconf-archive would be a build requirement of the package whose configure.ac references the AX_* macro, not of the autotools themselves. -- Yaakov -- Yaakov
