[odb-users] Help need with build issue

[Alain-Serge Nagni]

Hi to everyone,
   I got the code from the repository and I'm trying to build version 2.5.0-b.10 

When I try to generate the odb configure file by running the  bootstrap scrip with this command:                ./bootstrap
I will have these errors:
            configure.ac:12: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_equote
                  If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
                  See the Autoconf documentation.
            configure.ac:12: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_ifdef
            configure.ac:12: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AR
            autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1


When I looked in the configure.ac at lin 12, this is what I saw:        m4_equote()[m4_ifdef]m4_dquote()([AM_PROG_AR], [AM_PROG_AR]) # Required by automake 1.12.

Since I'm using automake 1.15 I commented out that line to try get things moving (not sure if this is the correct approach). After the change, when I re-run the bootstrap scrip this is the error that I get:

             configure.ac:16: installing 'config/config.guess'
            configure.ac:16: installing 'config/config.sub'
            configure.ac:11: installing 'config/install-sh'
            configure.ac:11: installing 'config/missing'
            automake: error: no 'Makefile.am' found for any configure output
            automake: Did you forget AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) in configure.ac?
            autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1


Not sure where to look. Can anybody help. That will be appreciated. I'm on Linux and using:            gcc version 6.4.1
            automake 1.15             autoreconf 12.2

Thank you.