Re: Problems building nautilus from CVS

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:15 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 17:21 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm currently having problems building nautilus from CVS with jhbuild.
> > >
> > > I get
> > >
> > > > configure.in:3: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl
> > > >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> > >
> > > m4_pattern_allow.
> > >
> > > >       See the Autoconf documentation.
> > > >
> > > > Other modules build fine with jhbuild
> > >
> > > Bizzare. dnl usually means "this is a comment" in autoconf. Does anyone
> > > else get this? Maybe related to the autoconf version.
> >
> >
> > i'm also seen it in my debian, i think it is some problem with debian
> > unstable, because i can't get evolution to compile after the last
> > update.
>
> I'm also running Debian unstable. Weird thing is that the latest autoconf
> is from january 25. (See http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/a/autoconf/ ) and
> I've been using autoconf without any problems up till yesterday.
>
> Yesterday evening I decided to rebuild the whole gnome stack. A lot of the
> builds failed, because of autoconf problems.
>
> I'll dig a bit deeper to see what's wrong

I now rebuild everything after first issueing a jhbuild bootstrap. So it 
used a newly compiled autoconf and it works.

Problem also seems to be solved in Debian in the meantime. If I use the 
autoconf installed in /usr/bin it now also works again. :-)

Jaap