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Bug 468090 - sci-libs/geos-3.3.8-r1 - configure.in:40: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
Summary: sci-libs/geos-3.3.8-r1 - configure.in:40: error: possibly undefined macro: AM...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Sci-geo Project
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Blocks: automake-1.13
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Reported: 2013-05-01 07:49 UTC by Stefan de Konink
Modified: 2014-11-05 12:30 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Stefan de Konink 2013-05-01 07:49:59 UTC 
***** autoconf *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/geos-3.3.8-r1/work/geos-3.3.8
***** autoconf

configure.in:40: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Kieron Hardy 2013-08-08 18:36:01 UTC 
I experienced this issue also. For reference, here is the output from my aclocal.out.

***** aclocal *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/geos-3.3.8-r1/work/geos-3.3.8
***** aclocal -I macros

aclocal-1.13: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
configure.in:40: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete.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:40: the top level
autom4te-2.69: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.13: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
Comment 2 Aaron W. Swenson gentoo-dev 2013-08-19 14:31:45 UTC 
Does this issue persist in sci-libs/geos-3.4.1?
Comment 3 Aaron W. Swenson gentoo-dev 2014-11-05 12:30:16 UTC 
*geos-3.4.2-r1 (05 Nov 2014)

  05 Nov 2014; Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org> -geos-3.3.8-r1.ebuild,
  -geos-3.4.2.ebuild, +geos-3.4.2-r1.ebuild, +files/3.4.2-ruby_so_name.patch:
  Fix bug 496408. Get value of RUBY_SO_NAME instead of LIBRUBY_SO. Remove old
  and broken versions.