Is there any reason you're not just using the m4/autoconf/automake/etc. 
packages from the Ubuntu apt repository?  This is the most common route, so 
it's definitely going to be the most reliable...

-- Murphy

On Jan 25, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Ishaan Aggarwal wrote:

> I just happened to put the latest version of autoconf. Now I degraded to
> 2.67 and things changed. Now I am getting the following error message
> (much smaller) for ./boot.sh
> 
> 
> Disabling noxext...
> configure.ac:21: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow.
>      See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:22: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
> configure.ac:23: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> 
> 
> 
> I have 1.4.15 version of M4 and 1.10.3 version of automake. I tried
> putting in 1.4.14 version of M4 to check if that worked but that gave me
> the following error when I tried running make:
> 
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mind/m4-1.4.14/lib'
> Making all in src
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mind/m4-1.4.14/src'
> gcc -std=gnu99   -g -O2   -o m4 m4.o builtin.o debug.o eval.o format.o
> freeze.o input.o macro.o output.o path.o symtab.o ../lib/libm4.a    
> path.o: In function `m4_fopen':
> /home/mind/m4-1.4.14/src/path.c:118: undefined reference to `S_ISDIR'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [m4] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mind/m4-1.4.14/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mind/m4-1.4.14'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Ishaan
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 18:08 -0800, Murphy McCauley wrote:
>> Did you specifically upgrade autoconf to 2.68?  I believe the latest in 
>> Ubuntu 10.10 is 2.67.  I ask because I don't have time to look into this 
>> just now, but I believe downgrading to 2.67 will fix your problem.
>> 
>> -- Murphy
>> 
>> On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Ishaan Aggarwal wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am new to Openflow and NOX and was trying to install NOX on Ubuntu
>>> 10.10. I pulled the latest repository from git and when ran ./boot.sh I
>>> got the following error:
>>> 
>>> building with all apps
>>> Disabling noxext...
>>> configure.ac:33: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
>>> detected in body
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2591: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2607: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
>>> /home/mind/nox/config/ax_boost_filesystem.m4:34: AX_BOOST_FILESYSTEM is
>>> expanded from...
>>> configure.ac:33: the top level
>>> configure.ac:108: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
>>> detected in body
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2591: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2607: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
>>> /home/mind/nox/config/ax_boost_unit_test_framework.m4:34:
>>> AX_BOOST_UNIT_TEST_FRAMEWORK is expanded from...
>>> configure.ac:108: the top level
>>> configure.ac:33: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
>>> detected in body
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2591: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2607: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
>>> aclocal.m4:1546: AX_BOOST_FILESYSTEM is expanded from...
>>> configure.ac:33: the top level
>>> configure.ac:108: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
>>> detected in body
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2591: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2607: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
>>> aclocal.m4:1654: AX_BOOST_UNIT_TEST_FRAMEWORK is expanded from...
>>> configure.ac:108: the top level
>>> configure.ac:33: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
>>> detected in body
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2591: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2607: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
>>> aclocal.m4:1546: AX_BOOST_FILESYSTEM is expanded from...
>>> configure.ac:33: the top level
>>> configure.ac:108: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
>>> detected in body
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2591: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2607: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
>>> from...
>>> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
>>> aclocal.m4:1654: AX_BOOST_UNIT_TEST_FRAMEWORK is expanded from...
>>> configure.ac:108: the top level
>>> configure.ac:21: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
>>>     If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>>> m4_pattern_allow.
>>>     See the Autoconf documentation.
>>> configure.ac:22: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
>>> configure.ac:23: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>>> autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> However it generated the configuration file which when I ran gave the
>>> following error:
>>> 
>>> configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in
>>> config "."/config
>>> 
>>> I have autoconf 2.68.
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>>> 
>>> Ishaan Aggarwal
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
> 
> 


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