Subject: bug#12376: 24.1.50; bootstrap fails

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:59:59 -0400

make bootstrap fails with this output.

if [ -x ./config.status ]; then	\
	    ./config.status --recheck;	\
	else				\
	    ./configure --cache-file=/dev/null; \
	fi
running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh /bin/sh ./configure CFLAGS=-O0 -g --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no --no-create --no-recursion
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/X11/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
./configure: line 5048: gl_EARLY: command not found
./configure: line 5178: syntax error near unexpected token `-Werror,'
./configure: line 5178: `       gl_WARN_ADD(-Werror, WERROR_CFLAGS)'
make: *** [config.status] Error 2

I just installed the latest automake, 1.12.3.
Autoconf is 2.65.

In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
 of 2012-07-31 on chiefs-gnewsense
Bzr revision: 109352 [email-masked]
Configured using:
 `configure 'CFLAGS=-g -O0' '--with-gif=no' '--with-tiff=no''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Dired by date

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
SPC c a n SPC a f f o r d SPC o SPC p DEL DEL DEL DEL 
t o SPC p a y SPC t h e s e ESC b ESC b C-u C-b C-f 
SPC C-e SPC w o r k e r s SPC d e c e n t l y . RET 
C-c C-c SPC d x n P C-a C-o C-o T h e SPC D e m o c 
r a t i c SPC P a r t y SPC s a y s SPC i t SPC s u 
p p o r t s SPC " i n t e r n e t SPC f r e e d o m 
" SPC b u t SPC t h i s ESC f ESC f ESC f C-p ESC b 
C-a ESC f ESC f ESC f ESC d ESC d C-e ESC DEL ESC DEL 
DEL , SPC b u t SPC n i t SPC ESC DEL i t SPC e n d 
o s DEL r s e s SPC t h e SPC c o p y r i g h t SPC 
l o b b y ' s SPC w a r SPC a g a i n s t SPC t h e 
SPC I n t e r n e t SPC a t SPC t h e SPC s a m e SPC 
t i m e , ESC q DEL . C-c C-c SPC SPC SPC L C-c C-c 
C-d x x n C-x b o u t g TAB RET g C-p C-o C-p C-o C-p 
C-o ESC x r e p o r t SPC e m a c s SPC b u g RET

Recent messages:
Sending...done
Expunging deleted messages...done
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-58
Sending...done
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-59
Sending...done
Expunging deleted messages...done
Source file `/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el' newer than byte-compiled file

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow emacsbug tabify man sh-script smie executable utf-7 etags
mule-util cal-move cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs log-edit pcvs-util
add-log diff-mode easy-mmode vc ediff-merg ediff-diff ediff-wind
ediff-help ediff-util ediff-mult ediff-init ediff vc-dispatcher
texinfo ispell rmailsum tar-mode jka-compr ind-util parse-time vc-cvs
sgml-mode dired-aux shell pcomplete grep compile comint ansi-color
ring cl-macs gv vc-bzr cc-langs cl cl-lib macroexp cc-mode cc-fonts
cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs
epa-mail epa derived epg epg-config dabbrev rmailout quail help-mode
mailalias qp misearch multi-isearch rmailmm message sendmail
format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mail-parse rfc2231 dired t-mouse
time-date rmailedit rmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
mail-prsvr mail-utils paren cus-start cus-load tooltip ediff-hook
vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page
menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer
loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5
base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar
gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

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