Re: An error in INSTALL about building a git clone

Install autotools.

And while we’re talking about this, we should think about rewriting the legacy fragile autotools build script on cmake.

> On Mar 27, 2021, at 3:28 AM, Anton Shepelev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello, all.
> 
> The libpng INSTALL file observes:
> 
>   If  you  downloaded  a  GIT  clone,  you will need to run
>   ./autogen.sh  before  running  ./configure,   to   create
>   "configure"  and  "Makefile.in" which are not included in
>   the GIT repository.
> 
> but when I tried to follow it to the letter with my freshly-
> cloned git repository,  ./autogen.sh failed with:
> 
>   ERROR: running autoreconf on an initialized system
> 
> Versioned files `configure' and `Makefile.in' are present in
> the root the repository. I believe it a contradiction and  a
> bug in the documentation or the setup of the git repository,
> for it is initiliased, in spite of  what  the  INSTALL  file
> says.
> 
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