./configure fails on SUSE Linux 11.2

[ikolomiets]

The system has latest Erlang installed (R14B01) and 0mq built from the current zeromq2 sources (as of Feb. 21, 2011) and installed in /usr/local/lib

After running ./bootstrap script,

./configure --with-zeromq=/usr/local/lib/

fails with the following error:
....
checking for Erlang/OTP 'kernel' library subdirectory... configure: error: in /home/gosha/work/erlzmq': configure: error: test Erlang program execution failed Seeconfig.log' for more details.

config.log has this:

configure:3609: checking for Erlang/OTP 'kernel' library subdirectory
configure:3649: $ERLC $ERLCFLAGS -b beam conftest.$ac_ext >&5 ; echo "#!/bin/sh" > conft
est$ac_exeext ; AS_ECHO([""$ERL" -run conftest start -run init stop -noshell"]) >> con
ftest$ac_exeext ; chmod +x conftest$ac_exeext
./configure: eval: line 3651: syntax error near unexpected token ["\"$ERL\" -run confte st start -run init stop -noshell"]' ./configure: eval: line 3651:$ERLC $ERLCFLAGS -b beam conftest.$ac_ext >&5 ; echo "#!/
bin/sh" > conftest$ac_exeext ; AS_ECHO([""$ERL" -run conftest start -run init stop -no
shell"]) >> conftest$ac_exeext ; chmod +x conftest$ac_exeext'
configure:3653: $? = 1
configure: program exited with status 1
configure: failed program was:
| -module(conftest).
| -export([start/0]).
|
| start() ->
| ReturnValue = case code:lib_dir("kernel") of
| {error, bad_name} ->
| file:write_file("conftest.out", "not found\n"),
| 1;
| LibDir ->
| file:write_file("conftest.out", LibDir),
| 0
| end,
| halt(ReturnValue)
| .
|
configure:3673: error: in `/home/gosha/work/erlzmq':
configure:3676: error: test Erlang program execution failed

[csrl]

probably unrelated, but normally, for the path to 0mq, you want: ./configure --with-zeromq=/usr/local

[ikolomiets]

Thank you! Good to know. You're right - it's unrelated - I still get the same error.

[dhammika]

Looks like AC_ERLANG_CHECK_LIB macro is missing, what's your autoconf version?
Were you able to run it before?

[ikolomiets]

autoconf is version 2.63

I compile lots of software on my workstation and never had problems related to autoconf before.

[ikolomiets]

I got latest erlang.m4 from autoconf distro. This solved everything with exception of
./bootstrap that complains now about:

/usr/share/aclocal/erlang.m4:102: error: m4_copy: won't overwrite defined macro: AC_LANG_CONFTEST(Erlang)
/usr/share/aclocal/erlang.m4:102: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

but it doesn't prevent ./configure & make from running successfully.

[dhammika]

erlzmq includes m4/erlang.m4, may be there's a conflict.

[Fang-Li]

I encountered the same problem, how can we solve