failed make: "'aclocal-1.14' is missing on your system"

[Thomas Morley]

Hi all,

I cloned the guile-git-repository in my home-directory and tried to
compile a local branch called `my-v2-second-try` (derived from
`remotes/origin/stable-2.0`).

Following the steps listed in INSTALL I did
./configure
without problems, then
make
which returned:
~/guile (my-v2-second-try)$ make
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash
/home/hermann/guile/build-aux/missing aclocal-1.14 -I m4
/home/hermann/guile/build-aux/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:1741: recipe for target 'aclocal.m4' failed
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127


Though (being on 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04) I get:

~$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.15

~$ m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.17

~$ perl --version

This is perl 5, version 22, subversion 1 (v5.22.1) built for
x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi

~$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Harm

[d***@roadrunner.com]

Post by Thomas Morley
Hi all,
I cloned the guile-git-repository in my home-directory and tried to
compile a local branch called `my-v2-second-try` (derived from
`remotes/origin/stable-2.0`).
Following the steps listed in INSTALL I did
./configure

The INSTALL instruction are for the tarball. See the HACKING file for building from git.

Basically, you must run the autogen.sh script before ./configure.

-Dale

[Thomas Morley]

Post by d***@roadrunner.com

Post by Thomas Morley
Hi all,
I cloned the guile-git-repository in my home-directory and tried to
compile a local branch called `my-v2-second-try` (derived from
`remotes/origin/stable-2.0`).
Following the steps listed in INSTALL I did
./configure

The INSTALL instruction are for the tarball. See the HACKING file for building from git.
Basically, you must run the autogen.sh script before ./configure.
-Dale

Got it.
It turned out I missed libtool-bin, after installing it the sequence
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
succeeded.

Thanks a lot,
Harm