Subject: bug#8342: 24.0.50; Emacs HEAD cannot build with OS X standard autoconf

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:08:10 -0400

Steve Purcell wrote:

> I will probably take the time to work around this issue on my own machine sooner or later, but not everybody will do so, and this is why I raised this bug.

If installing autoconf is too hard, you can use

./autogen/copy_autogen

as a workaround

(as advised by the top-level autogen.sh script, if you run it)