Issue with Autoconf and SystemC installation

[tmp_sc]

Hi, 

I tried to clone official SystemC repo from Accelera website and follow installation steps. 

After cloning and running autoconf I get the following error:
 

configure.ac:58: warning: The macro `AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM' is obsolete.
configure.ac:58: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2081: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM is expanded from...
configure.ac:58: the top level
configure.ac:565: warning: AC_OUTPUT should be used without arguments.
configure.ac:565: You should run autoupdate.
configure.ac:59: 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:117: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AS
configure.ac:270: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure.ac:336: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.ac:529: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_DEFINE

After running autoupdate (which finished w/o any message), I cannot configure, I get the error 
 

../configure 
configure: error: cannot find required auxiliary files: install-sh

And if I try to run autoconfig after autoupdate  I get the similar error like before:

 

If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:112: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AS
configure.ac:265: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure.ac:331: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.ac:524: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_DEFINE

Any hints on how can I fix this?


Regards
 

[David Black]

Did you run 'autoreconf -i' before configuring? You may also need to run 'autoupdate'.

Easier: use the cmake flow. Cmake recognizes more architectures and requires less fiddling.

 

[tmp_sc]

Hi David, 

Thanks a lot! 'autoreconf -i' followed by 'autoupdate' fixed the issue. Maybe this can be written in "INSTALL.md"?

Out of this topic: Latest branch on Github is SystemC 2.3.4, right? Any big differences w.r.t. 2.3.3? Didn't find anything big mentioned in release notes

Regards

[electronicsguy]

@David Black Thanks! that autoreconf trick works. But this really should be the standard and documented well. simple autoconf doesn't work. (system: debian-linux). How do I use the cmake flow?