I have been trying to compile quickfix on a Solaris 10 box. however when I try to run the bootstrap it gives a large number of warnings of the form ' warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE' before failing with:
aclocal: macro `_LT_DECL_SED' required but not defined
aclocal: macro `_LT_FUNC_STRIPNAME_CNF' required but not defined
configure.ac: 92: macro `AM_PATH_XML2' not found in library'
I'm fairly certain this is a path issue, if I run aclocal it fails the same way with AM_PATH_XML2 not found, but if I run aclocal -I /usr/local/share/aclocal/ it suceedes, allbeit with the underquoted definition warnings that I'm assuming can be ignored. For some reason Solaris seems to put libxml.m4 in /usr/local/share/aclocal rather than where most of the other .m4 files are.
How can I pass this path to autoreconf that is called by bootstrap ? Running autoreconf with the include path does not work.
Got there
The trouble was versions of packages, in particular m4 was too old, but it seems that unless m4 is updated before autoconf, autom4te calls a version of m4 that is too old causing trouble. Reapplying the autoconf package after applying the m4 package solved this.
EDIT
the list of packages I had to install to get this to compile libtools m4 autom4te sed (obviously this was installed, but libtools was expecting in usr/local/bin not usr/bin. Without installing this gmake launches 7000 copies of libtools which seems to have the path of sed hard coded until fork fails) perl (again usr/local/bin vs usr/bin after that just the issue of exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Also both bootstrap and configure needed to be re-run after installing sed, or gmake launched 7000 copies of libtools
after configure edit the makefile and remove the flag -Wno-unused-private-field and gmake actually works