Compiling error with pinentry

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2025 10:30:00 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Daniel 
Cerqueira wrote:
> Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 at gmail.com> writes:
> > On 5/7/25 09:54, Daniel Cerqueira wrote:
> >> 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).
[...]
> >> 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
> > 
> > Check your Autoconf installation.  A quick Web search suggests that
> > you may need to install the "gettext" package.
> 
> 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.

On my system, AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX is defined in
/usr/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4 which is part of the gettext-tools package.

By the way, you wouldn't run into this problem if you build pinentry (and the 
rest of GnuPG) from the official release tarballs.

Regards,
Ingo
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