Re: gEDA-user: Icarus build problem?

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Williams wrote:
> Evan Lavelle wrote:
>> I can't run configure after downloading from git and sourcing 
>> autoconf.sh. The output from configure ends with:
>>
>> checking for BZ2_bzdopen in -lbz2... yes
>> checking for BZ2_bzdopen in -lbz2... (cached) yes
>> ../../git2/verilog/vpi/configure: line 4002: syntax error near 
>> unexpected token `fmin'
>> ../../git2/verilog/vpi/configure: line 4002: `AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE(fmin 
>> fmax)'
>> configure: error: /bin/sh '../../git2/verilog/vpi/configure' failed for vpi
> 
> Almost surely a problem with your autoconf. I know that autoconf-2.61
> on my openSUSE system works. What version are you using? It looks
> like your autoconf didn't expand the AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE in the
> vpi/configure.in, so probably your autoconf it too old, or is
> broken.
> 

Steve, you might want to put in the minimum required autoconf version in 
your configure.ac file.  That *should* cause a useful error message in 
cases like this.  You can look in gerbv or pcb's configure.ac for an 
example.

-Dan



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