Re: [Libguestfs] [hivex][PATCH] OS X, bootstrap: Locate pkg.m4

On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:22 , Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:55:46AM -0700, Alex Nelson wrote: >> OS X does not include pkg-config by default. When installed, pkg.m4 tends >> to end up in some place that is not the autotool-expected /usr/share/aclocal/. >> Add to bootstrap a path check so pkg.m4 can be found, so ./configure does >> not fail invoking PKG_CHECK_MODULES. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Nelson <ajnelson(a)cs.ucsc.edu&gt; >> --- >> bootstrap | 7 ++++++- >> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap >> index b2960c1..8e4cb86 100755 >> --- a/bootstrap >> +++ b/bootstrap >> @@ -85,5 +85,10 @@ $gnulib_tool \ >> --tests-base=gnulib/tests \ >> --import $modules >> >> +# Locate pkg.m4 (installed in non-default location in OS X) >> +# (Passing non-existent paths with -I causes aclocal, invoked by autoreconf, to die.) >> +pkgm4dir=$(test -f /opt/local/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 && dirname /opt/local/share/aclocal/pkg.m4) || \ >> + $(test -f /usr/local/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 && dirname /usr/local/share/aclocal/pkg.m4) || \ >> + $(test -f /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 && dirname /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4) >> + >> # Disable autopoint and libtoolize, since they were already done above. >> -AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true autoreconf --verbose --install >> +AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true autoreconf --verbose -I $pkgm4dir --install > > No -- the problem here is that aclocal on Mac OS X is broken. It > hasn't been configured with the correct ac-dir: > > $ aclocal --print-ac-dir > /usr/share/aclocal > > Anyway, try setting ACLOCAL_PATH to the /opt/local/share/aclocal > directory, as described in the aclocal documentation. Ah, thank you, that was the kind of variable I was looking for. I found a documenting page here: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Macro-Search-Path.html Updated patch incoming.