IRRToolSet 5.1.2 released , error: possibly undefined macro:

[James W. Laferriere]

 	Hello Havard ,

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019, Havard Eidnes wrote:
>> I'm also seeing this with pkgsrc on NetBSD when trying to update
>> the package.  This is with autoconf 2.69, which as far as I can
>> see is the latest version.
>>
>> If I instead of "autoconf -vfi" do "autoconf -v -f -i", I get the
>> same errors James reported:
>>
>> configure.ac:34: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>>       See the Autoconf documentation.
>> configure.ac:56: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LEX
>> configure.ac:58: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> I'm digging further to see what can be done to fix this.
>
> The recipe I found out to be required (after quite a bit of trial
> and error -- I'm no autoconf expert...):
>
> aclocal
> autoreconf --install
> automake --add-missing
> autoconf -v -i -f
 	The above recide works for my Slackware based system as well .
 	Valid runs & compile and usable binaries .
 		Tnx ,  JimL

> This is with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.16.1.
>
> This managed to produce a working seutp and a build which
> succeeds.
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Håvard
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