Hi again all , JIC it's of any interest, I've downloaded, built and subsequently used up-levelled versions of autoconf & m4 (to 2.69 & 1.4.16) - at which point the aforementioned problem disappears. It should be noted that no such problem was observed on Ubuntu.
-- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - Robinson Crusoe On 19 January 2015 at 15:01, Dave Pointon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all , > > Having just taken an RHEL 6.5 update on my laptop, I'm no longe able to > run the build - I see the following error ... > > Autoconf found: /usr/bin/autoconf > Generating generated-configure.sh with /usr/bin/autoconf > stdin:35: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion > stdin:35: the top level > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 > > From some Googling results, I notice that similar errors have been > encountered elsewhere (none of which are OpenJDK related) and appears to be > symptomatic of a version mis-match between autoconf and m4 - however, given > I'm running the autoconf/m4 combination of v2.63/v1.4.13, which had > previously worked, I wondered if there are any wise souls out there who > might be able to point me in the right direction for a solution WRT OpenJDK. > > > Many TIA , > -- > Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS > > Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count > the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it > - Robinson Crusoe >
