Please downgrade automake to 1.5 and try again.

Derick

Thanks for the quick reply. Just tried your suggestion, same result:

[root@cpu2212 php4]# ./buildconf
buildconf: checking installation...
buildconf: autoconf version 2.13 (ok)
buildconf: automake version 1.5 (ok)
buildconf: libtool version 1.4 (ok)
rebuilding configure
configure.in:837: /usr/bin/m4: Undefined macro `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
autoconf: Undefined macros:
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_TRY_DLOPEN_SELF
configure.in:1053:AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure.in:164:AC_MSG_RESULT([$php_cv_cc_dashr])
configure.in:174:       AC_MSG_RESULT([$php_cv_cc_rpath])
configure.in:194:    AC_MSG_RESULT(${1}.${2} (ok))
configure.in:257:AC_MSG_RESULT([$PHP_SAPI])
configure.in:298: AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBSOCKET,1,[ ]) ], [
configure.in:324: AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBNSL,1,[ ]) ],[
configure.in:327:  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBNSL,1,[ ]) ], [])
configure.in:353: AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBSOCKET,1,[ ]) ], [
configure.in:356:  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBRESOLV,1,[ ])
configure.in:460:  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SOCKADDR_STORAGE,1,[Whether you have struct sockaddr_storage])
configure.in:470:  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_IPV6,1,[Whether you have IPv6 support])
configure.in:549:  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETADDRINFO,1,[Define if you have the getaddrinfo function])
configure.in:575:dnl AC_MSG_RESULT([$ac_cv_type_in_addr_t])
configure.in:577:  AC_DEFINE(in_addr_t, u_int, [ ])
configure.in:659:  AC_DEFINE(PHP_SAFE_MODE,1,[ ])
configure.in:661:  AC_DEFINE(PHP_SAFE_MODE,0,[ ])
configure.in:671:               AC_DEFINE(PHP_SAFE_MODE_EXEC_DIR,"/usr/local/php/bin", [ ])
configure.in:672:       AC_MSG_RESULT([/usr/local/php/bin])
configure.in:674:               AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PHP_SAFE_MODE_EXEC_DIR,"$withval", [ ])
configure.in:675:       AC_MSG_RESULT([$withval])
configure.in:678:       AC_DEFINE(PHP_SAFE_MODE_EXEC_DIR,"/usr/local/php/bin", [ ])
configure.in:679:       AC_MSG_RESULT([/usr/local/php/bin])
configure.in:682:       AC_DEFINE(PHP_SAFE_MODE_EXEC_DIR,"/usr/local/php/bin", [ ])
configure.in:683:       AC_MSG_RESULT([/usr/local/php/bin])
configure.in:698:  AC_DEFINE(PHP_SIGCHILD, 1, [ ])
configure.in:700:  AC_DEFINE(PHP_SIGCHILD, 0, [ ])
configure.in:707:  AC_DEFINE(MAGIC_QUOTES, 1, [ ])
configure.in:709:  AC_DEFINE(MAGIC_QUOTES, 0, [ ])
configure.in:732:  AC_DEFINE(DEFAULT_SHORT_OPEN_TAG,"1",[ ])
configure.in:734:  AC_DEFINE(DEFAULT_SHORT_OPEN_TAG,"0",[ ])
configure.in:745:    AC_DEFINE(HAVE_DMALLOC,1,[Whether you have dmalloc])
configure.in:755:  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CRYPT,1,[ ])
configure.in:801:AC_MSG_RESULT([$PHP_VERSIONING])
configure.in:845:  AC_DEFINE(ZTS,1,[ ])
configure.in:958:AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PHP_BUILD_DATE,"$PHP_BUILD_DATE",[PHP build date])
configure.in:960:AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PHP_UNAME,"$PHP_UNAME",[uname -a output])
configure.in:962:AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PHP_OS,"$PHP_OS",[uname output])
rebuilding acconfig.h
rebuilding main/php_config.h.in
configure.in:837: /usr/bin/m4: Undefined macro `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'

please upgrade to autoconf 2.52 
http://www.php.net/anoncvs.php#buildconf_fail

Daniela

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".

Now using 2.52, and getting a similar response:

 ./buildconf
using default Zend directory
buildconf: checking installation...
buildconf: autoconf version 2.52 (ok)
buildconf: Your version of autoconf likely contains buggy cache code.
           Running cvsclean for you.
           To avoid this, install autoconf-2.13 and automake-1.5.
buildconf: automake version 1.5 (ok)
buildconf: libtool version 1.4 (ok)
rebuilding configure
configure.in:808: warning: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is m4_require'd but is not m4_defun'd
configure.in:146: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_RESULT
configure.in:284: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
configure.in:1041: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure:77683: error: possibly undefined macro: _LT_AC_TRY_DLOPEN_SELF
rebuilding acconfig.h
rebuilding main/php_config.h.in

There is something wrong with your autotools/libtool installation. Please use the snapshots instead:

http://snaps.php.net/

Thanks, that solved it, and sorry for taking up your time with a local config problem.

Cheers