Compiling error with pinentry

[Daniel Cerqueira]

Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Hi Jacob.

First, thank you for your reply.

I already had gettext installed.  I have also have now updated gettext,
to the latest version (0.25), and I still get the same error message as
above.

Any thoughts on this?


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