I've checked in all of the changes to let libvirt use the first two modules from gnulib. That exposed the fact that gnulib's gl_INIT macro depends on autoconf-2.59c or newer for its definition of the m4_foreach_w macro. Here's a kludgey work-around patch, just committed, to fix build failure for developers who are stuck using such old tools: (also removed some trailing blanks) Accommodate developers using autoconf-2.59. * configure.in (m4_foreach_w): Define if not defined. I'll propose the proper change (in gnulib) tomorrow. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com&gt; --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ configure.in | 17 ++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 4b3c266..302706c 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Wed Dec 5 23:57:53 CET 2007 Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com&gt; + + Accommodate developers using autoconf-2.59. + * configure.in (m4_foreach_w): Define if not defined. + Wed Dec 5 22:38:18 CET 2007 Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com&gt; Include "config.h". diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index a7f692e..8d2a143 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_PROG_CPP +dnl gl_INIT uses m4_foreach_w, yet that is not defined in autoconf-2.59. +dnl In order to accommodate developers with such old tools, here's a +dnl replacement definition. +m4_ifndef([m4_foreach_w], + [m4_define([m4_foreach_w], + [m4_foreach([$1], m4_split(m4_normalize([$2]), [ ]), [$3])])]) + gl_EARLY gl_INIT @@ -289,8 +296,8 @@ LIBXML_LIBS="" LIBXML_FOUND="no" AC_ARG_WITH(libxml, [ --with-libxml=[PFX] libxml2 location]) -if test "z$with_libxml" = "zno" ; then - AC_MSG_CHECKING(for libxml2 libraries >= $LIBXML_REQUIRED) +if test "z$with_libxml" = "zno" ; then + AC_MSG_CHECKING(for libxml2 libraries >= $LIBXML_REQUIRED) AC_MSG_ERROR(libxml2 >= $LIBXML_REQUIRED is required for libvirt) elif test "z$with_libxml" = "z" -a "x$PKG_CONFIG" != "x" ; then PKG_CHECK_EXISTS(libxml-2.0,[LIBXML_FOUND=yes]) @@ -299,7 +306,7 @@ elif test "z$with_libxml" = "z" -a "x$PKG_CONFIG" != "x" ; then fi fi if test "z$LIBXML_FOUND" = "zno" ; then - if test "z$with_libxml" != "z" ; then + if test "z$with_libxml" != "z" ; then LIBXML_CONFIG=$with_libxml/bin/$LIBXML_CONFIG fi AC_MSG_CHECKING(libxml2 $LIBXML_CONFIG >= $LIBXML_REQUIRED ) @@ -442,8 +449,8 @@ AC_SUBST(AVAHI_LIBS) dnl virsh libraries AC_CHECK_HEADERS([readline/readline.h]) -AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, main, - [VIRSH_LIBS="$VIRSH_LIBS -lreadline"], +AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, main, + [VIRSH_LIBS="$VIRSH_LIBS -lreadline"], [AC_MSG_WARN([readline library not found])], [$VIRSH_LIBS]) AC_SUBST(VIRSH_LIBS) -- 1.5.3.7.1006.g8c6a6