[libhid-discuss] Problem with configure

[Charles Lepple]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Tom Isaacson wrote:

> What version of autoconf should I be using? I'm using Ubuntu 9.04,  
> and when I run ./configure I get the error:
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... mawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of  
> Makefiles... no
> ./configure: line 2568: syntax error near unexpected token `pedantic,'
> ./configure: line 2568: `MD_ARG_ENABLE_CUSTOM(pedantic, pedantic  
> compiler checks, no)'
>
> Am I using an incompatible version of autoconf or is something else  
> going wrong here?

How are you running autoconf? It should interpret MD_ARG_ENABLE_CUSTOM  
before it goes into the configure script.