From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Improvement suggestion for autoreconf.sh/INSTALL.BZR Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:47:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87fw8z5x0q.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341942455 20896 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2012 17:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:47:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 10 19:47:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SoeWz-0002uT-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:47:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38246 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoeWy-0003LJ-8g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoeWq-0003LC-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoeWo-00039e-Mw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50267) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoeWo-00039L-Fz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SoeWm-0002bx-8o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:47:12 +0200 Original-Received: from 37.red-81-32-92.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([81.32.92.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:47:12 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 37.red-81-32-92.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:47:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 37.red-81-32-92.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rWKaNIMP4l7+NC30XZct1JRCtfg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151517 Archived-At: After four months or so, updated my git checkout of Emacs, created a new build directory and executed myemacsbuild $ ../emacs/autoreconf [some output elided] Checking for autoconf (need at least version )... unable to check Checking for automake (need at least version 1.11)... ok Building Emacs from Bzr requires the following specialized programs: autoconf (minimum version ) automake (minimum version 1.11) [some output elided] Ok, autoconf is not installed, so install it, rerun the script but the check for autoconf still fails. Then tried the suggested workaround on autoconf's output: myemacsbuild $ autoreconf -i -I m4 ../emacs/ Can't exec "libtoolize": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/autoreconf line 196. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/autoreconf line 196. So libtool is required, but no mention to that fact on INSTALL.BZR. Installed it and tried again: myemacsbuild $ autoreconf -i -I m4 ../emacs/ myemacsbuild $ _ Good, the configure script was created in the source directory. So something is fishy with the detection of autoconf and it would be good to report the absence/requirement of libtool from the script and/or INSTALL.BZR. I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 64 bits. Thanks.