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Batteries-included CouchDB build system
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Rake fails on OS X #87

Open mrbigbunbury opened 11 years ago

mrbigbunbury commented 11 years ago

Rake fails with the following message:

...
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I libltdl/m4 --output=aclocal.m4t
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /Users/sz/src/build-couchdb/build/share/autoconf-2.62/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326.
autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory
git reset --hard
HEAD is now at fdb4c54 Release 2.4.2.
git clean -f -d
git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard | xargs rm -f || true
rm_f /Users/sz/src/build-couchdb/build/bin/autoconf
rm_f /Users/sz/src/build-couchdb/build/bin/autoreconf
rm_f /Users/sz/src/build-couchdb/build/bin/autoheader
rm_f /Users/sz/src/build-couchdb/build/bin/autom4te
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [./bootstrap...]

(See full trace by running task with --trace)
stephanedupont commented 11 years ago

I had the same problem on Debian. I solved it by installing 'automake'.