Re: [RFC PATCH] make libgcj_bc prims symbol sizes correct

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Nix wrote:
> On 17 Aug 2009, Andrew Haley spake thusly:
>> Please let me know if this works for you.
> 
> Doesn't apply against 4.4-branch, but the fix is trivial (no
> @ATOMICSPEC@ in libgcj.spec.in), so I did that.
> 
> Unfortunately you touched configure.ac and Makefile.am both, and I hit a
> wall trying to convince autoreconf to play along. GCC is famously picky
> about the exact versions of the autotools in use, so I installed
> automake-1.9.6 and autoconf-2.59 (libtool was fine), which were used to
> generate the stuff in libjava/, but then got this:
> 
> spindle 564 /usr/src/gcc/gcc/libjava% AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.59 AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.59 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.9 autoreconf-2.59 -fiv
> autoreconf-2.59: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf-2.59: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf-2.59: running: aclocal --force -I . -I .. -I ../config -I libltdl
> libltdl/acinclude.m4:6188: the serial number must appear before any macro definition
> ../config/override.m4:24: error: m4_copy: won't overwrite defined macro: AC_PREREQ
> ../config/override.m4:24: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf-2.59: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> 
> (I tried at the top level too: same result.)
> 
> I do not claim to be clueless at autoconfery, but this error has me
> stumped. What magic invocation do I need to regenerate these things?
> This error isn't happening at the macro that's supposed to prevent
> regeneration with th ewrong autoconf version, but at the one above it...

In my experience the only thing that works is to add autoconf and
automake to the head of your PATH and invoke them as "autoconf" and
"automake".

Andrew.