Looking for help building configure.ac with newer version of autoreconf

[ssethuma1155]

I download the latest version of psqlODBC and am trying to build it locally. I have autoreconf 2.69 on my build systems. It is flagging error " :configure.ac:36: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE". Copilot says it is because of html chars in line 33 and 35, but I don't see any html chars in the .ac file. I am not making any changes to configure.ac, so really don't need to build it. Any ideas on how to get past this? Thanks

[davecramer]

You need to run autoreconf -fi before trying to run configure.

[ssethuma1155]

Thank you. I will try that.

[ssethuma1155]

when I run autoreconf -fi, I am getting error below. autoconf version is autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
Do I need to install aclocal as well? If so, where do I get that from and what else is also needed?

Sorry for all these questions. I have no experience running autoconf before.

psqlodbc_18.00.0001# /usr/bin/autoreconf -vfi
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I config --output=aclocal.m4t
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326.
autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory

[ssethuma1155]

Sorry I got past the aclocal issue. Now getting an error about AC_DEFINE. I will look into that next

autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:36: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1