[Bug build/21087] New: Configuring gdb with --enable-maintainer-mode fails with autoconf version error

[lgustavo at codesourcery dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21087

Bug ID: 21087
Summary: Configuring gdb with --enable-maintainer-mode fails
with autoconf version error
Product: gdb
Version: HEAD
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: build
Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
Reporter: lgustavo at codesourcery dot com
Target Milestone: ---

Reported on IRC. Attempting to configure master binutils-gdb with
--enable-maintainer-mode fails due to an autoconf version check from src/intl:

make[2]: Entering directory '/fsf/build-binutils-gdb-maintainer/intl'
cd ../../binutils-gdb/intl && aclocal -I ../config
configure.ac:2: error: Please use exactly Autoconf 2.64 instead of 2.69.
../config/override.m4:12: _GCC_AUTOCONF_VERSION_CHECK is expanded from...
configure.ac:2: the top level
autom4te: m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
Makefile:236: recipe for target '../../binutils-gdb/intl/aclocal.m4' failed
make[2]: *** [../../binutils-gdb/intl/aclocal.m4] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/fsf/build-binutils-gdb-maintainer/intl'
Makefile:6567: recipe for target 'all-intl' failed
make[1]: *** [all-intl] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/fsf/build-binutils-gdb-maintainer'
Makefile:849: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

It has also been reported that switching to Autoconf 2.64 will then cause
gnulib to complain about Autoconf being too old a version:

make[4]: Entering directory `build/binutils-gdb/gdb/build-gnulib'
cd /binutils-gdb/gdb/gnulib && aclocal -I import/m4 -I ../../config
configure.ac:38: error: Autoconf version 2.65 or higher is required

[bergner at vnet dot ibm.com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21087

Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm.com> changed:

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CC| |bergner at vnet dot ibm.com

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21087

Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
CC| |tromey at sourceware dot org
Resolution|--- |FIXED

--- Comment #1 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
gdb has since switched to requiring autoconf 2.69, so I am going
to close this as fixed.