Dear Hans-Bernhard,

> Are we building this from a tarball, or directly off the bleeding edge?

From a tarball. As far as I can tell I am exactly reproducing the original 
package that is available as binary on Cygwin repos with exactly the same 
sources, patches and cygport file.
 
> If that had to be done, that would constitute a clear upstream bug.
> Well, either that or that file itself should not be there.

I can't judge this and would need some advice here. The issue could be at 
several places:

- In the past and on other systems aclocal automatically included the package 
local m4 folder in all process steps. If this is the intended behavior of 
aclocal, this is a regression in current cygwin's aclocal package are some of 
the packages it requires.

- In the past cygport automatically added an option to autoreconf to include 
the local m4 folder.

- The original builder/maintanier of the current package 
mingw64-x86_64-gtksourceview3.0-3.24.6 did something non-standard to get the 
package build (that is didn't just run cygport ... all.

- The use of AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED in gtksourceview configure.ac for macros 
defined in the package local m4 folder is bogus. This would then be a 
gtksourceview upstream bug, as you suggest. One can argue that it doesn't make 
a lot of sense to check the availability of locally supplied macros, but one 
can also ask why it seems to work on other systems and seems to have worked on 
Cygwin in the past.

Best regards,

Michael
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