building problem related with pkg-config-0.29.1

[pcwhy]

When building in MAC OS X 10.12.6 I got the following error..

D: already downloaded pkg-config-0.29.1.tar.gz D: File '/Users/liuyongxin/gnuradio-for-mac-without-macports-master/tmp/pkg-config-0.29.1.tar.gz' matches 'beb43c9e064555469bd4390dcfd8030b1536e0aa103f08d7abf7ae8cac0cb001' I: Extracting pkg-config-0.29.1.tar.gz to pkg-config-0.29.1 tar xpzf pkg-config-0.29.1.tar.gz I: Running autoreconf in pkg-config-0.29.1 m4macros/glib-gettext.m4:39: error: m4_copy: won't overwrite defined macro: glib_DEFUN m4macros/glib-gettext.m4:39: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 E: autoreconf failed for pkg-config-0.29.1

and any solution to mitigate that?

[cfriedt]

Looks as though it should already be fixed according to this bug report... seemingly not though. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822409

One thing you could do in order to provide more relevant feedback is to insert a simple call to "env" inside build.sh somewhere above the part that installs pkg-config and provide the output from that command (note: it will likely be somewhat different than for your regular "env" output).

[cfriedt]

If you are able to put together a fix yourself, can demonstrate that the fix works, and make a pull request, I will gladly merge your changes.

However, I no longer have access to a Mac OS machine, so cannot test changes individually. I'm also unable to build new releases unfortunately.

I'd be happy to merge PR's until the time someone else is able to take over maintainership.