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Robinhood Policy Engine : a versatile tool to monitor filesystem contents and schedule actions on filesystem entries.
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./configure missing, autogen.sh fails #112

Closed matthiasbeyer closed 4 years ago

matthiasbeyer commented 4 years ago

The release tarball does not contain a configure script as claimed by your installation documentation and the autogen.sh script fails:

configure.ac:79: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
ypsah commented 4 years ago

The error message makes me think you are missing the libtool package. But even then, autogen.sh is likely to fail when run from a release tarball as it assumes it is run from inside a git repository.

After installing libtool, the easiest way to generate a configure script and build the project is to use the standard autotools procedure:

$ autoreconf --install && ./configure && make -j $(nproc)
matthiasbeyer commented 4 years ago

Does not work:

+ autoreconf -i -f
configure.ac:79: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

libtool is installed.

martinetd commented 4 years ago

That error really shouldn't happen with libtool installed.

AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is defined in /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 which is in the libtool package in most distros; what distribution are you using and can you check this file appears ok? (rpm -qf /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 should list libtool and rpm -V libtool should be empty on rhel-based distro)

That being said we should regenerate a release tarball after autogen setup as that is the standard way of distribution.

tl-cea commented 4 years ago

The distribution tarball does contain a configure script:

$ tar ztvf robinhood-3.1.5.tar.gz | grep configure
-rwxr-xr--  605224 2019-03-20 13:23 robinhood-3.1.5/configure