Building as of 1.0.18 fails due to missing aclocal

Reported as: lp:1304124
Reported by: lp:~wolfsage
Reported at: 2014-04-08T01:33:10Z

Imported from Launchpad using lp2gh.

Previously, a Perl module that I maintain (Memcached::libmemcached) that wraps libmemcached was able to build on Travis-CI:

https://travis-ci.org/timbunce/Memcached-libmemcached/jobs/20770244

It would complain about missing aclocal files, but continue on anyway:

With 1.0.18 though, it fails:

https://travis-ci.org/timbunce/Memcached-libmemcached/jobs/22484346

With this output:

cd src/libmemcached && make install CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash /home/travis/build/timbunce/Memcached-libmemcached/src/libmemcached/build-aux/missing aclocal-1.13 -I m4 -I libtest/m4 /home/travis/build/timbunce/Memcached-libmemcached/src/libmemcached/build-aux/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.13: command not found WARNING: 'aclocal-1.13' 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/ make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127 Unable to build libmemcached: Error running cd src/libmemcached && make install

It looks like libmemcached/build-aux/missing would previously throw the above warning, attempt to behave like aclocal, and then exit 0.

Now, it seems to exit 127, and cause the build to fail.

For the most part, this succeeds building on my local computer (though I saw it fail once like above but I haven't been able to repeat it since.)

Why did this behaviour change? Is this a bug?

Thanks,

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)

awesomized / libmemcached

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