On 9 Feb 2011, at 21:01, Andy Wingo wrote: > On Wed 09 Feb 2011 11:40, Hans Aberg <haber...@telia.com> writes: > >> I made a new system installation, and now the GIT version does not >> generate 'configure'. I thought one should just run ./autogen.sh; >> however, this fails, because autoconf (called via autoreconf in this >> script) cannot find gettext.m4, which is in /usr/local/share/aclocal/, >> which should be copied into ./m4/. > > Sounds like you're installing things to multiple prefixes (/usr and > /usr/local in your case, presumably). > >> I can't see if it is a problem with Guile's configure.ac or some >> installation problem with autoconf-2.68 that makes it not looking into >> /usr/local/share. > > autoconf will look in /usr/local iff it is installed to /usr/local, > iirc.
It turns out that one must install automake too, which contains aclocal - otherwise the one in /usr/bin will be chosen, and it will chose files without /usr/local. Then it works as it should, modulo that gcc internal segmentation fault.