Hiya David , I was aware of that, but due to circumstances beyond our control, the use of down-level autotools is (currently) enforced - but at least I now have a handle on at least one of the reasons for the minmum autoconf level - FWIW, I did find this ( http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2014-01/msg00034.html) which provides both a problem description and a posited work-around.
Many tThanx again , -- 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 20 January 2015 at 01:42, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > autoconf 2.69 is supposed to be minimal supported version for OpenJDK > build. > > David > > > On 20/01/2015 2:45 AM, Dave Pointon wrote: > >> 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 <point...@gmail.com> 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 >>> >>>
