[Debian-med-packaging] Problems with autoconf in pftools

[Lukas Schwaighofer]

Hi,

On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:04:01 +0200
Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:

> I try to package pftools[1].  Unfortunately autoreconf throws the
> following error:
> 
>    dh_autoreconf -O--no-parallel
> configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_NOTICE
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:51: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> dh_autoreconf: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
> debian/rules:8: recipe for target 'build' failed
> 
> 
> Websearches resulted in adding pkg-config to Build-Depends but I
> admit I do not understand why this should help to find macros that
> are in autoconf doc - and it actually does not help.  Any other hints
> to get this working?

configure.ac uses the AX_PTHREAD macro, you need to build depend on
autoconf-archive (which contains /usr/share/aclocal/ax_pthread.m4).

Btw, brackets in lines 98-101 of configure.ac, where AX_PTHREAD is used,
look really wrong (though I'm not an autoconf expert).

Regards
Lukas
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