On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:

> I'm running debian sarge on my alpha platform.  I've downloaded the
> squeak debian packages using "apt-get source squeak", which downloads
> squeak-3.7b5.  I try to build the package with dpkg-buildpackage but
> get the following errors:
>
> # dpkg-buildpackage
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package is squeak
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1:3.7b5-1
> dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Lex Spoon <lex at debian.org>
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is alpha
> debian/rules clean
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
> rm -rf build
> dh_clean -a
> rm -rf debian/squeak-vm debian/inisqueak
> dpkg-source -b squeak-3.7b5
> dpkg-source: building squeak using existing squeak_3.7b5.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: building squeak in squeak_3.7b5-1.diff.gz
> dpkg-source: building squeak in squeak_3.7b5-1.dsc
> debian/rules build
> dh_testdir
> mkdir build
> (cd platforms/unix/config/; make)
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/root/squeak-3.7b5/platforms/unix/config'
> ./mkacinc > acplugins.m4
>         + ../vm-display-Quartz/acinclude.m4
>         + ../vm-display-X11/acinclude.m4
>         + ../vm-display-fbdev/acinclude.m4
>         + ../vm-sound-MacOSX/acinclude.m4
>         + ../vm-sound-NAS/acinclude.m4
>         + ../vm-sound-OSS/acinclude.m4
>         + ../vm-sound-Sun/acinclude.m4
>         + ../vm/acinclude.m4
>         + ../plugins/B3DAcceleratorPlugin/acinclude.m4
>         + ../plugins/Mpeg3Plugin/acinclude.m4
>         + ../plugins/ObjectiveCPlugin/acinclude.m4
>         + ../plugins/PseudoTTYPlugin/acinclude.m4
>         + ../plugins/SqueakFFIPrims/acinclude.m4
>         + ../plugins/XDisplayControlPlugin/acinclude.m4
> aclocal
> autoconf
> configure.ac:134: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_NM
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:147: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
> configure.ac:148: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> make[1]: *** [configure] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/squeak-3.7b5/platforms/unix/config'
> make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 2
>

Looks like this error is not alpha specific.  I have the same error
on i386 and sparc.

Jiann-Ming Su
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