Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I won't say I am trying to build kpowersave for SL5, but I will say I am unable to understand the meaning of the error:
> 
> configure.in:61: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by frozen file is not supported
> 
> which leads to:
> 
> configure.in:61: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by frozen file is not supported
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> make: *** [cvs] Error 1
> 
> Any ideas? Any suggestions?

More fresh m4 may be helpful:

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/SRPMS/SL/m4-1.4.8-1.src.rpm 

> Thank you,
> R-C
> 
> P.S. So far, my attempts to to build kpowersave for SL5 went OK, and here's the successful steps:
> 
> (1) Need to build dbus-qt3 bindings:
> wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/SRPMS/dbus-qt-0.70-1.fc6.src.rpm
> rpm -ivh dbus-qt-0.70-1.fc6.src.rpm
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
> rpmbuild -bb --rebuild ../SPECS/dbus-qt.spec
> rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/dbus-qt*rpm
> 
> (2) Some 'rare' dependencies:
> yum install dbus-devel hal-devel libXScrnSaver libXScrnSaver-devel libXtst libXtst-devel
> 
> (3) Try to configure kpowersave-0.7.2 (it should fail if other dependencies are not met):
> wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/SRPMS/kpowersave-0.7.2-1.fc7.src.rpm
> mkdir -p /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> rpm -ivh *rpm
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> tar -jxf *bz2
> cd kpowersave-0.7.2
> ./configure
> 
> (4) Now let's try it:
> rpmbuild -bb --rebuild /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kpowersave.spec
> 
> ...which works OK until:
> *** Creating configure.in
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kpowersave-0.7.2'
> cd . && make -f admin/Makefile.common configure.in ;
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kpowersave-0.7.2'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kpowersave-0.7.2'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kpowersave-0.7.2'
> *** Creating aclocal.m4
> /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_LIBREISERFS
>   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> configure.in:61: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by frozen file is not supported
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> make: *** [cvs] Error 1
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.83302 (%prep)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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