configure: error: conditional "AMDEP" was never defined.

[dlh]

$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

$ ./bootstrap.sh
(Many warnings about "non-POSIX variable name")
$ ./configure --disable-glout
(See attached configure-output.txt)

[dlh (dlh)]

This error was introduced in revision 950[1].

[1]: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~armagetronad-dev/armagetronad/0.2.8-armagetronad-work/revision/950

[Yann Kaiser (epsy)]

Can be reproduced here systematically and on other machines
reverting r950 always does the trick

Definitely release-blocking

[Manuel Moos (z-man)]

I can't reproduce it here with the same autoconf version or later versions or 2.59 (on OSX Tiger). Would there be a distribution affected that I can try in a VM?

I'm partially reverting r950, please check if that does the trick.

(Backstory: the most recent gcc gives new warnings on higher code levels that can't be worked around other than disabling them. So their reporting is disabled with a -Wno- directive. That directive is unsupported on much older GCC versions, however.)

[Manuel Moos (z-man)]

Ah. Apparently, the AX_CXXFLAGS_GCC_OPTION macro indirectly calls an automake macro making use of that conditional, and at least one macro call needs to be on the top level of the configure script, not in some conditional branch thereof. The only call so far was in the CODELEVEL>=1 branch, so no problems ensued when CODELEVEL was at least that high, which it always is on my systems.

/me forgets to ask why you guys aren't using CODELEVEL=2 like you're supposed to :)