mingw compile trouble

Nick Mathewson nickm at freehaven.net
Mon Mar 12 13:16:31 UTC 2007


On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:34:28PM +0800, Li-Hui Zhou wrote:
> There's another trouble when compiling the latest svn with MinGW:
> 
> 
> $ make
> cd . && /d/CompileProject/tor-mingw/tor-experiment/missing aclocal-1.4
> WARNING: `aclocal-1.4' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
>          you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.  You might want
>          to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
>          any GNU archive site.
> cd . && /d/CompileProject/tor-mingw/tor-experiment/missing automake-1.4 --foreign --include-deps Makefile
> WARNING: `automake-1.4' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
>          you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.
>          You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
>          Grab them from any GNU archive site.
> cd . && autoconf
> configure.in:17: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_HELP_STRING
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> make: *** [configure] Error 1

Try upgrading to the latest autotools, and/or running the autogen.sh
script that comes with Tor.  (The version of Tor in svn requires a
more recent version of automake and autoconf than you have necessarily
been using.)

yrs,
-- 
Nick Mathewson
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