[MESOS-1727] Configure fails with ../configure: line 18439: syntax error near unexpected token `PROTOBUFPREFIX,'

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.1
• Labels: build configure

Environment

OSX 10.9.4, Darwin Kernel Version 13.3.0
automake (GNU automake) 1.13.4
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)

• Target Version/s: 0.20.1
• Sprint: Q3 Sprint 4
• Story Points: 2
• Assignee: Jie Yu
• Reporter: Lukas Loesche
• Shepherd: t.st.clair
• Created: 21/Aug/14 11:56
• Updated: 26/Apr/17 16:52
• Resolved: 27/Aug/14 22:20

Description

I followed the "Getting started" documentation and did:

$ git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/mesos.git; cd mesos
$ ./bootstrap
$ mkdir build; cd build
$ ../configure

which aborts with

....
....
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
../configure: line 18439: syntax error near unexpected token `PROTOBUFPREFIX,'
../configure: line 18439: `  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PROTOBUFPREFIX,'