autotools error when building libdbus-c++; autoreconf "possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE"

autotools error when building libdbus-c++; autoreconf "possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE"

[S.Jaritz]

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Hej

I try to build the libdbus-c++ libary. The build process is based on 
autotools. When compiling it  do_configure throws an error. The macro 
"AC_DEFINE" is not found. Any idea how to make autoreconf run?

Below I listed to recipe and after the Error plot

######### libdbus-c++_0.9.bb ###########
SUMMARY = "libdbus-c++"
SECTION = "ccc"
LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"

inherit autotools

SRC_URI[md5sum] = "e752116f523fa88ef041e63d3dee4de2"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = 
"bc11ac297b3cb010be904c72789695543ee3fdf3d75cdc8225fd371385af4e61"
SRC_URI = "
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dbus-cplusplus/files/dbus-c++/0.9.0/libdbus-c++-0.9.0.tar.gz
"

S = "${WORKDIR}/libdbus-c++-0.9.0"

BBCLASSEXTEND += "native"
####################

######### Error ###########
| autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
| autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
| autoreconf: running: aclocal 
--system-acdir=/home/user/myTC/poky/build/tmp/work/cortexa5hf-vfp-poky-linux-gnueabi/libdbus-c++/0.9-r0/build/aclocal-copy/ 
-I 
/home/user/myTC/poky/build/tmp/work/cortexa5hf-vfp-poky-linux-gnueabi/libdbus-c++/0.9-r0/libdbus-c++-0.9.0/m4/ 
-I 
/home/user/myTC/poky/build/tmp/work/cortexa5hf-vfp-poky-linux-gnueabi/libdbus-c++/0.9-r0/libdbus-c++-0.9.0/m4/ 
--force -I m4
| autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
| autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
| libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
| libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
| libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
| libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
| libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
| libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
| libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
| libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
| autoreconf: running: 
/home/user/myTC/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/autoconf 
--include=/home/user/myTC/poky/build/tmp/work/cortexa5hf-vfp-poky-linux-gnueabi/libdbus-c++/0.9-r0/libdbus-c++-0.9.0/m4/ 
--force
| configure.ac:54: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
|       If this token and others are legitimate, please use 
m4_pattern_allow.
|       See the Autoconf documentation.
| autoreconf: 
/home/user/myTC/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/autoconf 
failed with exit status: 1
####################

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Stefan Jaritz
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Re: autotools error when building libdbus-c++; autoreconf "possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE"

[Burton, Ross]

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On 13 May 2016 at 15:21, <S.Jaritz@esa-grimma.de> wrote:

> I try to build the libdbus-c++ libary. The build process is based on
> autotools. When compiling it  do_configure throws an error. The macro
> "AC_DEFINE" is not found. Any idea how to make autoreconf run?
>

Try also inheriting pkgconfig.  I've noticed that if the pkgconfig macros
are not present then autoreconf fails in *very* strange ways.

Ross

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