Improvement suggestion for autoreconf.sh/INSTALL.BZR

Improvement suggestion for autoreconf.sh/INSTALL.BZR

[Óscar Fuentes]

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.

Re: Improvement suggestion for autoreconf.sh/INSTALL.BZR

[Glenn Morris]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> 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:

libtool is not required. This was reported before; it still makes no
sense to me.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-03/msg00879.html

I can only repeat: "Perhaps it is a bug in whatever your version of
autoreconf is?"

Re: Improvement suggestion for autoreconf.sh/INSTALL.BZR

[Óscar Fuentes]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>
>> 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:
>
> libtool is not required. This was reported before; it still makes no
> sense to me.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-03/msg00879.html
>
> I can only repeat: "Perhaps it is a bug in whatever your version of
> autoreconf is?"

For the record, I'm using autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68

The other issue about autoreconf not detecting autoconf (even after
libtool is installed) remains.