Re: compile issue on centos

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 9/21/18 5:34 AM, vvcfee wrote:
> Hi GNU team,Thanks for your Great job!
> recently I try to build findutils statically for forensic reason, on 
> centos7.3,with following commands I got error and hang on bootstrap:
> address@hidden findutils-4.6.0]# wget 
> https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.6.0.tar.gz
>        address@hidden findutils-4.6.0]# tar -zxvf findutils-4.6.0.tar.gz
> address@hidden findutils-4.6.0]# cd findutils-4.6.0
> 
> address@hidden findutils-4.6.0]# ./bootstrap
> ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out findutils sources...
> ./bootstrap: getting translations into po/.reference for findutils...
> receiving incremental file list
> 
> sent 30 bytes  received 630 bytes  101.54 bytes/sec
> total size is 2,062,963  speedup is 3,125.70
> ./bootstrap: autopoint --force
> ./bootstrap: gnulib/gnulib-tool  --import --no-changelog --aux-dir build-aux 
> --d
> oc-base doc --lib libfindutils --m4-base m4/ --source-base lib/ --tests-base 
> tes
> ts --local-dir gl  --import ...
> Module list with included dependencies (indented):
> File list:
>   lib/dummy.c
>   m4/00gnulib.m4
>   m4/gnulib-common.m4
>   m4/onceonly.m4
> Finished.
> 
> You may need to add #include directives for the following .h files.
> 
> Don't forget to
>   - add "lib/Makefile" to AC_CONFIG_FILES in ./configure.ac,
>   - mention "lib" in SUBDIRS in Makefile.am,
>   - mention "-I m4" in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am,
>   - mention "gnulib-cache.m4" in EXTRA_DIST in m4/Makefile.am,
>   - invoke gl_EARLY in ./configure.ac, right after AC_PROG_CC,
>   - invoke gl_INIT in ./configure.ac.
> running: AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true autoreconf --verbose --install 
> --force -
> I m4  --no-recursive
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: running: true --force
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --force -I gl/m4 -I m4
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --include=m4 --force
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --include=m4 --force
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:173: error: GL_GENERATE_BYTESWAP_H does not appear in 
> AM_COND
> ITIONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:499: error: GL_GENERATE_ERRNO_H does not appear in 
> AM_CONDITI
> ONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:695: error: GL_GENERATE_FLOAT_H does not appear in 
> AM_CONDITI
> ONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:726: error: GL_GENERATE_FNMATCH_H does not appear in 
> AM_CONDI
> TIONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:2125: error: GL_GENERATE_SELINUX_CONTEXT_H does not appear 
> in
>  AM_CONDITIONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:2329: error: GL_GENERATE_STDALIGN_H does not appear in 
> AM_CON
> DITIONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:2352: error: GL_GENERATE_STDARG_H does not appear in 
> AM_CONDI
> TIONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:2380: error: GL_GENERATE_STDBOOL_H does not appear in 
> AM_COND
> ITIONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:2403: error: GL_GENERATE_STDDEF_H does not appear in 
> AM_CONDI
> TIONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:2434: error: GL_GENERATE_STDINT_H does not appear in 
> AM_CONDI
> TIONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:3534: error: LIBUNISTRING_COMPILE_UNIWIDTH_WIDTH does not 
> app
> ear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:46: warning: compiling 'glthread/lock.c' in subdir 
> requires '
> AM_PROG_CC_C_O' in 'configure.ac'
> gl/lib/Makefile.am: error: Yacc source seen but 'YACC' is undefined
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:   The usual way to define 'YACC' is to add 'AC_PROG_YACC'
> gl/lib/Makefile.am:   to 'configure.ac' and run 'autoconf' again.
> tests/Makefile.am:1130: error: GL_GENERATE_NETINET_IN_H does not appear in 
> AM_CO
> NDITIONAL
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> ./bootstrap: autoreconf failed

You are building from a regular distribution tarball, i.e., not from the Git 
source
tree like a developer would do.  Therefore, you should just run the well-known
  ./configure && make && make install
as documented in INSTALL instead of beginning with './bootstrap'.

Have a nice day,
Berny