Compiling error with pinentry

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

On 5/7/25 09:54, Daniel Cerqueira wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am not subscribe to this mailing list, so please CC me if you are
> replying to the mailing list.  Thanks!
>
> I am having trouble compiling pinentry.  I always compile all the GnuPG
> suite, so I don't install any GnuPG program by my package manager (which
> is pacman).
>
> My operating system is Parabola.
>
> Can someone tell me if they can reproduce this compiling error issue
> below, and ways for me to solve this?
>
> Here is the compile error that I get:
>
> ```
> $ ./autogen.sh
> autogen.sh: Running aclocal -I m4 ...
> autogen.sh: Running autoheader...
> autogen.sh: Running automake --gnu ...
> autogen.sh: Running autoconf ...
> configure.ac:341: warning: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> m4/iconv.m4:10: AM_ICONV_LINKFLAGS_BODY is expanded from...
> m4/iconv.m4:21: AM_ICONV_LINK is expanded from...
> m4/iconv.m4:246: AM_ICONV is expanded from...
> configure.ac:341: the top level
> configure.ac:341: warning: AC_LIB_RPATH is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> m4/iconv.m4:10: AM_ICONV_LINKFLAGS_BODY is expanded from...
> m4/iconv.m4:21: AM_ICONV_LINK is expanded from...
> m4/iconv.m4:246: AM_ICONV is expanded from...
> configure.ac:341: the top level
> configure:9869: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX
>        If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>        See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure:9870: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_RPATH
> configure:9875: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY
> configure:9883: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_APPENDTOVAR
> [...]

Check your Autoconf installation.  A quick Web search suggests that you 
may need to install the "gettext" package.


-- Jacob