Re: missing files

On 2019-11-26 3:08 a.m., Erich Eckner wrote:

> I try to build abiword from source on arch linux. This worked until=20
> version 3.0.2. However, in release 3.0.3 there was a cleanup of build=20
> files from the tarball.

It's not a cleanup, it's an autotools (likely autoconf) bug as `make=20
distcheck` did pass.

> Now, the `./configure && make && make install`=20
> steps will not work anymore, failing in configure with:
>=20
> configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "."=20
> "./.." "./../.."
>=20
> How can I recreate those files? So far, I tried `automake -a` and=20
> `autoreconf -si`. They fail with:
>=20
> configure.ac:70: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
>  =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 If this token and others are legitimate=
, please use=20
> m4_pattern_allow.
>  =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 See the Autoconf documentation.
> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
>=20
> respectively.
>=20
> This is with autoconf 2.69-6 and automake 1.16.1-2.


`autoreconf -fi` alone should work as there is no need to run automake.=20
(at least it does here, but I don't have Arch linux)


FWIW I'll figure out what's going on and roll out a 3.0.4 tarball.


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