Packaging for SLE 10 SDK: how to fix undefined macro AC_TYPE_UINT32_T error from autoconf?

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#1

Hi,

I am trying to build Vim for the SLE 10 SDK Open Build Service build target and while I have managed to overcome some errors related to missing packages (namely fdupes, gpm-devel, gtk3-devel, rsvg-devel) I haven’t been able to fix this autoconf error:


   45s] configure.ac:3178: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_TYPE_UINT32_T
   45s]       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
   45s]       See the Autoconf documentation.

how do I fix this? I don’t know anything about autoconf, based on this output I’d guess that using m4_pattern_allow with autoconf would fix this error but I don’t know how to do this. Do I ammend by autoconf command (on line 257 of my spec file) to:


m4_pattern_allow autoconf

or?

Thanks for your time,
Brenton

#2

This macro was introduced in autoconf 2.59c. If your autoconf version is earlier, the only solution is to provide it locally as part of your package.