Compiling error with pinentry

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Mon Sep 29 16:24:22 CEST 2025


A late update for this thread.

On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2025 16:54:41 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Daniel 
Cerqueira wrote:
> I am having trouble compiling pinentry.  I always compile all the GnuPG
> suite, so I don't install any GnuPG program by my package manager (which
> is pacman).
> 
> My operating system is Parabola.
> 
> Can someone tell me if they can reproduce this compiling error issue
> below, and ways for me to solve this?
> 
> Here is the compile error that I get:
> 
> ```
> $ ./autogen.sh
> autogen.sh: Running aclocal -I m4 ...
> autogen.sh: Running autoheader...
> autogen.sh: Running automake --gnu ...
> autogen.sh: Running autoconf ...
> configure.ac:341: warning: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX is m4_require'd but not
> m4_defun'd m4/iconv.m4:10: AM_ICONV_LINKFLAGS_BODY is expanded from...
> m4/iconv.m4:21: AM_ICONV_LINK is expanded from...
> m4/iconv.m4:246: AM_ICONV is expanded from...

After updating to gettext 0.26 (on openSUSE Tumbleweed) I got the same errors. 
It seems that since version 0.25 most of gettext's m4 files are no longer 
installed in /usr/share/aclocal and that one needs to add the required files to 
the project. This has now been done for pinentry.

Regards,
Ingo
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