[bug-gawk] aclocal-1.15 direct dependency/requirement

[David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]]

Hello guys,

during backporting of the recent patches into gawk-4.2.1 in Fedora, I have found out a small problem. Your build system (after backporting the patches, and adding 'automake' and 'bison' into buildroot) now directly requires the 'aclocal-1.15' binary.

This actually causes a problem with build in Fedora, because e.g. in Fedora Rawhide (F29) we are already using 'aclocal-1.16', and thus the build itself fails.

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+ /usr/bin/make -O -j4
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /builddir/build/BUILD/gawk-4.2.1/missing aclocal-1.15 -I m4
/builddir/build/BUILD/gawk-4.2.1/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.15: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.15' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
         'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
         The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
         It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
         <http://www.perl.org/>
make: *** [Makefile:585: aclocal.m4] Error 127

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Would it be possible to just use the 'aclocal' binary instead? Or could we modify the ./configure script to use the version of 'aclocal' which it finds on the system? :)

NOTE: I might be able to fix it temporary (with having different patches for different version of Fedora), but this is not ideal solution in the long-term.

Thanks in advance,

and best regards!

David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
Associate Software Engineer
Brno, Czech Republic

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