cpuminer possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR

[thufir]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:27:02 +0000, Colin Law wrote:

> On 19 December 2013 12:00, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:47:36 +0000, thufir wrote:
>>
>>> -ljansson... no checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
>>> checking for yasm... false configure: yasm is required for the sse2_64
>>> algorithm.
>>> It will be skipped.
>>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is
>>> at least version 0.9.0... yes ./configure: line 5054: syntax error
>>> near unexpected token `,' ./configure: line 5054:
>>> `LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG(, 7.10.1, ,' thufir at dur:~/dogecoin/cpuminer$
>>> minerd --help No command 'minerd' found, did you mean:
>>>  Command 'mined' from package 'mined' (universe)
>>> minerd: command not found thufir at dur:~/dogecoin/cpuminer$
>>> thufir at dur:~/dogecoin/cpuminer$
>>
>>
>>
>> Whoops, had to install yasm.  However, I still get:
>>
>> checking for json_loads in -ljansson... no checking for pthread_create
>> in -lpthread... yes checking for yasm... /usr/bin/yasm checking if yasm
>> version is greater than 1.0.1... yes checking for pkg-config...
>> /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0...
>> yes ./configure: line 5054: syntax error near unexpected token `,'
>> ./configure: line 5054: `LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG(, 7.10.1, ,'
>> thufir at dur:~/dogecoin/cpuminer$
>>
>>
>> so, that's a syntax error with the build file?
> 
> Google is a very useful tool.  I googled for LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG and
> found dozens of people having the same problem with cpu miner.
> Some of the links look useful.
> 
> Colin



Right you are, I was just looking at:

https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer

which, oddly, while it mentions installing some packages, it doesn't do so 
in the context of Linux.  The requirements are, I think:

yasm  libcurl4-openssl-dev automake make


-Thufir