Never mind. Diego is right. This file pkg.m4 is not part of automake but part of the pkg-config package. Running "sudo apt-get install pkg-config" installs this m4 file (not sure if the version of aclocal matters at all). Thanks Peter and Diego for helping! - Gao
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Peter Johansson <troj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/26/2014 08:41 AM, Yunzhong Gao wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I was trying to install automake 1.14 on Ubuntu 13.10 which comes with >> automake 1.13 pre-installed. I appear to be missing this file >> /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4. Is this file >> auto-generated by the configure-make-install process, or is it to be >> downloaded from >> somewhere? Many many thanks in advance, >> - Gao >> > Sounds like you need to set the search path; have a look at `dirlist' in > the manual. If you provide more details on what error you experience, it's > easier for people to help. > > Cheers, > > -- > Peter Johansson > >