Compiling error with pinentry

[Daniel Cerqueira]

Frank Guthausen <fg.gnupg at shimps.de> writes:

> Hello Daniel.
>
> I don't know much about Parabola but can provide some
> hints from the Debian world, which lead to an educated
> guess.
>
> On Thu, 08 May 2025 21:06:05 +0100
> Daniel Cerqueira <dan.git at lispclub.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX is at /usr/share/gettext/m4/lib-prefix.m4 ,
>> which comes with the gettext package.  Which was already installed.
>
> $  apt-file find lib-prefix.m4
> gettext: /usr/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4
>
>> I still get the same error, when compiling pinentry from the official
>> tarball:
>> [...]
>> $ ./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 
>
> Without gettext installed, I can reproduce this warning.
>
>> 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
>
> I cannot reproduce these errors.
>
>> $ ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
>> [...]
>> ./configure: line 9875: syntax error near unexpected token `iconv'
>> ./configure: line 9875: `      AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY(iconv)'
>
> Without gettext installed, I can reproduce this error (with a different
> line number).
>
> When I install gettext and run autogen.sh again, the warning doesn't
> show up again and the obtained configure script doesn't throw any
> errors anymore.
>
>> Can someone tell me if is just my system that gets this error?
>
> My guess is: despite having gettext installed, the autogen.sh
> script doesn't know the location where the required data is
> installed on your system. This leads to effects similar as if
> gettext wasn't installed at all.
>
> The next step would be to figure out the reason why the gettext data
> seems to be unknown, which might require some better knowledge of
> Parabola than I can provide.

Hi Frank.

Thank you for your comprehensive reply.  Means a lot to me :-) .

I will be talking to the Parabola community about this.  I know that my
computer's privacy has been abused, by some Internet crackers.

Unfortunately, a reality I have to deal with.


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