[bug #50492] configure missing / autoconf fails

[Ted Lyngmo]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50492>

                 Summary: configure missing / autoconf fails
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: tedlyngmo
            Submitted on: Wed 08 Mar 2017 09:06:11 AM CET
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Build/Install
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: SCM
        Operating System: Any
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

INSTALL says one should run "./configure" but it's not included when
downloading from the git repo. It's included in .gitignore which may explain
that.


% git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/make.git
% cd make
% ./configure
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

% autoconf
configure.ac:32: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AR
configure.ac:54: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
configure.ac:55: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
configure.ac:74: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O
configure.ac:86: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC
configure.ac:113: error: possibly undefined macro: pds_AC_DOS_PATHS
configure.ac:179: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.ac:450: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_WITH_DMALLOC

% ./configure
configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in config
"."/config


A lot of files seems to be missing so I ended up having to extract them from
the latest packaged release.


% wget -qO- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.2.1.tar.bz2 | tar
--strip-components=1 -xjvf -
% git reset --hard
% ./configure
% make
% make check
605 Tests in 121 Categories Complete ... No Failures :-)

The system uptime program believes the load average to be:
uptime
 08:55:48 up 5 days, 12:45,  2 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.01
The GNU load average checking code thinks:
./loadavg
1-minute: 0.080000  5-minute: 0.070000  15-minute: 0.010000

=========================================================================
 Regression PASSED: GNU Make 4.2.90 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) built with gcc
=========================================================================





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