Using a clean checkout from the head, on Opensolaris snv_134, autoconf 2.68:
lyndon@treebeard:/home/lyndon/src/nmh/foo> ls COPYRIGHT Makefile.in config.guess h mts ChangeLog README config.sub install-sh nmh.spec DATE VERSION configure.ac m4 sbr INSTALL autogen.sh docs man test MACHINES config etc mkinstalldirs uip lyndon@treebeard:/home/lyndon/src/nmh/foo> autoconf lyndon@treebeard:/home/lyndon/src/nmh/foo> ./configure checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 checking target system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 configuring for nmh-1.4-dev configuring for nmh dated 3 January 2012 checking for gcc... no checking for cc... cc checking whether the C compiler works... yes [...] checking for lstat... yes checking for nl_langinfo... yes checking for modf... yes ./configure[5429]: NMH_CHECK_NETLIBS: not found [No such file or directory] checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... yes checking for iconv... yes checking whether _libiconv_version is declared... no checking for iconv declaration... const ./configure: line 5681: syntax error at line 5691: `(' unexpected lyndon@treebeard:/home/lyndon/src/nmh/foo> Do I really have to bring in automake as well? Or is this just an oversight in generating the shipped configure.ac? Note that the final error about the unexpected '(' is related to NMH_CHECK_NDBM, so it looks like neither of the files under m4/ git included in configure.ac. --lyndon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers