I'm trying to use autotools for the first time as a developer, so excuse any noobishness.
I'm using the Check unit testing library which defines the macro AM_PATH_CHECK in check.m4, which was installed in /usr/local/share/aclocal. I managed to get aclocal to recognize AM_PATH_CHECK by editing /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist to include /usr/local/share/aclocal.
So aclocal runs and returns cleanly (without any additional arguments).
However, when I run autoreconf --install, I get the error
configure.ac:36: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_CHECK
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow
See the Autoconf documentation
autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
What am I doing wrong? How should I let autoreconf know of the existence of AM_PATH_LOCAL?
I had one of my peers help me out, and we discovered that the problem was that pkg-config wasn't installed. (Evidently, not part of OSX's XCode tools).
I'm not sure who to file a bug with about this - should Check be checking for pkg-confg when it installs? Should autoconf? Or is it so bog-standard that I should complain to the XCode tools people?