autogen.sh AC_MSG_ERROR

[ghost]

When I run autogen.sh on Linux Mint

Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
configure.ac:96: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

I fixed the problem by adding "autoreconf -i" as the last line of autogen.sh. I request the developer to add this line in the code.

autoconf
autoreconf -i

[jgarzik]

Updated for commit 73d6371

[ghost]

I think we don't need autogen.sh at all. From the manpage of autoreconf, we know that it runs all the auto* tools in the right order, as many times as needed. So, the following worked for me:

git clone git://github.com/jgarzik/cpuminer.git  && cd cpuminer
autoreconf -i
./configure

Initially autoreconf failed due to missing libcurl-dev package, but after installing it, the above works flawlessly. Some arcane versions of autotools may require to run it twice: autoreconf -i; autoreconf -i but it seems to be harmless to run it twice anyways (it's quick as well).