I found the right search term. There were a mess of dinkleberry sym links in /usr/local that aclocal was trying to follow. Would you like a patch with a more informative warning message? (It ought to be a warning, given that it likely won't have an effect. Removing the (several) broken links allowed it to complete successfully.) On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 7:24 AM Bruce Korb <bruce.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am unable to locate any package that provides pix.m4. > No idea what it might be. > > autoreconf --symlink --verbose --install > autoreconf: Entering directory `.' > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext > autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 > aclocal: error: aclocal: file '/usr/local/share/aclocal/pix.m4' does not exist > autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 > > I don't even find a reference to it in any other files in that directory: > > $ find /usr/local/share/aclocal* -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep 'pix.m4' > $ autoconf --version > autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 > Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
-- - Bruce
