[Nix-dev] Automake Question

[Noah Lavine]

Hello,

No, the variable isn't defined.

When I define it myself, autoconf works. So that's probably the issue.

Thanks a lot,
Noah

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Noah!  :-)
>
> Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine at gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> The issue is that when trying to build GNU Guile, automake needs the
>> AM_GNU_GETTEXT macro. But even after installing automake and gettext
>> through Nix, I still don't have that macro available.
>
> On NixOS, the ‘ACLOCAL_PATH’ environment variable normally gets defined;
> by default, its value is “$HOME/.nix-profile/share/aclocal”, meaning
> that Autoconf macros are searched for in the user’s local profile.
>
> Can you check whether that variable is defined for you?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.