Re: fix an error message during configure

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 12:29:10PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Yes, it fails in my CI as well:
> 
>   aclocal -I gnulib/m4 && autoconf && autoheader && automake 
>   (cd tp/Texinfo/XS && libtoolize  && aclocal -I gnulib/m4 && autoconf && 
> autoheader && automake)
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
> libtoolize: linking file './ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'gnulib/m4'.
> libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> configure.ac:132: error: required file './compile' not found
> configure.ac:132:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'
> configure.ac:134: error: required file './config.guess' not found
> configure.ac:134:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.guess'
> configure.ac:134: error: required file './config.sub' not found
> configure.ac:134:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.sub'
> configure.ac:14: error: required file './install-sh' not found
> configure.ac:14:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'install-sh'
> configure.ac:14: error: required file './missing' not found
> configure.ac:14:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'missing'
> Makefile.am: error: required file './depcomp' not found
> Makefile.am:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'depcomp'
> 
> Fixed through the attached patch.
> 
> More precisely, fixed through the second part of the attached patch.
> The first part serves the purpose of updating the same files also
> in the build-aux/ directory, so that you don't risk distributing
> outdated files for 6 years any more :) But it assumes that the
> main contributors are all on the same Automake version, otherwise
> one guy gets differences, commits them, and then the other contributor
> gets the reverse differences.

I committed the other fix to this from Patrice's mail, which used
autoreconf.

I expect that we could not track these files in git if that is a problem.
When making a release I check what version of automake etc. I have
installed on my system to make sure I use the correct version.  I'm
not sure which files you are saying were 6 years out of date.  I checked
some of the files under build-aux/ and they had been updated more
recently than then.

> From a65dbe54257656b92a81261e22725370f855d469 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:01:21 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] build: Tell automake to install various build-aux/ files.
> 
> * autogen.sh: Invoke AUTOMAKE with options -a -c.
> ---
>  autogen.sh | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
> index a2f530d46f..3b9b06d5e7 100755
> --- a/autogen.sh
> +++ b/autogen.sh
> @@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ fi
>  : ${AUTOHEADER=autoheader}
>  : ${AUTOMAKE=automake}
>  : ${AUTOCONF=autoconf}
> -cmd="$ACLOCAL -I gnulib/m4 && $AUTOCONF && $AUTOHEADER && $AUTOMAKE"
> +cmd="$ACLOCAL -I gnulib/m4 && $AUTOCONF && $AUTOHEADER && $AUTOMAKE -a -c"
>  echo "  $cmd $*"
>  $chicken eval $cmd "$@" || exit 1
>  
>  : ${LIBTOOLIZE=libtoolize}
>  cmd="(cd tp/Texinfo/XS && ${LIBTOOLIZE} \
> - && $ACLOCAL -I gnulib/m4 && $AUTOCONF && $AUTOHEADER && $AUTOMAKE)"
> + && $ACLOCAL -I gnulib/m4 && $AUTOCONF && $AUTOHEADER && $AUTOMAKE -a -c)"
>  echo "  $cmd"
>  $chicken eval $cmd || exit 1
>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>