autoconf issue

[mikekatana]

I am trying installing io500 sc24 on Ubuntu and getting the following message when ior is being compiled:

HEAD is now at 778dca8 Merge pull request #20 from VI4IO/fix-19
~/io500
~/io500/build/ior ~/io500
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I config
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Intltool
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:13: warning: The macro AC_CONFIG_HEADER' is obsolete. configure.ac:13: You should run autoupdate. ./lib/autoconf/status.m4:719: AC_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from... configure.ac:13: the top level configure.ac:42: warning: The macro AC_PROG_CC_C99' is obsolete.
configure.ac:42: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/c.m4:1659: AC_PROG_CC_C99 is expanded from...
configure.ac:42: the top level
configure.ac:92: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:387: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
autoreconf: error: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

The OS I am running is Linux 6.8.0-52-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Jan 11 00:06:25 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[JulianKunkel]

Check with lsb_release -a and pkg-config --version
I suppose that the pkg-config is outdated.

[mikekatana]

Thank you Julian - It was indeed the pkg-config.