Missing dependency? aclocal

[cemeyer]

Fresh git checkout on Fedora 22.

$ ./configure
...
$ make
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /home/conrad/src/sh/ctypes.sh/missing aclocal-1.14 
/home/conrad/src/sh/ctypes.sh/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.14: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.14' 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/>
Makefile:386: recipe for target 'aclocal.m4' failed
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127

[cemeyer]

This is on d75b38b.

[cemeyer]

Well, ok, I guess I just need to re-generate configure? I'm not very familiar with autotools.

$ aclocal --version
aclocal (GNU automake) 1.15

[cemeyer]

autoreconf -vfi fixed it. The configure in git doesn't work on Fedora 22, though.

[taviso]

Hmm, I'm not an autotools expert either, I expected that to work. Maybe I'm generating it wrong.

Investigating...

[cemeyer]

I'm surprised there's a hardcoded reference to a particular version of aclocal in the script at all.

[taviso]

I think the problem is the timestamps dont work properly because I'm checking in configure et al. I'll leave them for now, but after we finish a first release I'll remove them from git.

So if you're checking out from git you need to run autogen.sh (and will need automake, libtool, etc installed), otherwise if you're using a release tarball you can just ./configure.