[gdal-dev] OGDI 4.0.0RC1 ready for testing

[Even Rouault]

On vendredi 1 mars 2019 11:50:57 CET Greg Troxel wrote:
> Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> writes:
> > On 3/1/19 5:26 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> >> I can't reproduce this.
> >> I've renamed my pkg-config binary and /usr/include/rpc/rpc.h to trigger
> >> the
> > 
> >> need of pkg-config and I get a clean error:
> > We use a clean chroot and `autoreconf -fi` before calling configure.
> 
> I always had the impression that autogen/autoreconf/etc. needed to have
> all the dependencies installed to have the m4 files visible as Even
> says.
> 
> This sort of problem seems like it would happen for almost every
> package.  Is this something you are seeing special in GDAL?

Digging into history, the reason is
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6077#comment:2

So was a particular situation where I used a self-compiled autoconf, that 
lacked the pkg.m4 file. So definitely not a nominal situation


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