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.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:53:43AM -0700, Alex Nelson wrote: > > 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. But my point is that aclocal on Mac OS X (or maybe just the Mac package manager you're using) is broken. What does 'aclocal --print-ac-dir' print out?

It sounds as if you need to fix your aclocal, or if you can't do that, set ACLOCAL_PATH for your environment only. No one else has /opt/local ...