Bug 467612 – =app-text/sablotron-1.0.3 fails with automake-1.13 - error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2013-04-27 21:10:52 UTC]

# cat /var/tmp/portage/app-text/sablotron-1.0.3/temp/aclocal.out
***** aclocal *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/app-text/sablotron-1.0.3/work/Sablot-1.0.3
***** aclocal

aclocal-1.13: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
/usr/share/aclocal/zthread.m4:34: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_ZTHREAD
/usr/share/aclocal/zthread.m4:34:   run info Automake 'Extending aclocal'
/usr/share/aclocal/zthread.m4:34:   or see http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
configure.in:50: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete.
    You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead.
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete-err.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.in:50: the top level
autom4te-2.69: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.13: error: echo failed with exit status: 1

Please note that although this package is stable and automake-1.13 is ~arch,
this is still a priority fix because ~arch users are immediately affected.

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2013-05-12 22:01:12 UTC]

The sgml herd has no maintainers, so please feel free to fix this yourself.

[Comment 2 James Cloos 2013-05-15 11:49:16 UTC]

Or perhaps wait for the next version of automake, which will not error out when the old macros are used.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-24 02:34:54 UTC]

Fixed without a revision bump.