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Libewf is a library to access the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF)
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How do I upgrade autotools? #194

Closed ishitar2021 closed 11 months ago

ishitar2021 commented 11 months ago

i used "How to build from source: https://github.com/libyal/libewf/wiki/Building" link to build my source code of libewf. i have done the following things git clone https://github.com/libyal/libewf.git cd libewf/ ./synclibs.sh ./autogen.sh and in last ./autogen.sh when run first it showed some libraries are missing . so i installed that all like getext and autoconf. but autoconf i had 2.64 version and manually i installed the 2.71 version. but in libewf folder its taken the older version as i run the command i saw error like this

`root@pooja-hcl-desktop:/home/pooja/Documents/libewf# ./autogen.sh
configure.ac:1: error: Autoconf version 2.71 or higher is required
configure.ac:1: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63`

then i googled it and found to change the path to be added to that file autogen.sh script:

AUTOCONF=/path/to/downloaded/autoconf-2.71 ./autogen.sh then the error occurred as root@pooja-hcl-desktop:/home/pooja/Documents/libewf# ./autogen.sh ./autogen.sh:43: ./autogen.sh: Cannot fork Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 307. Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 307. Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 307. Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 307. Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 307. Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 307. and continuing like this.

What should i do to rectify this

Need to build libewf fully

joachimmetz commented 11 months ago

You'll need to update your version of autotools. Why don't you use a source distribution package, what you are trying to do is only intended for people familiar with autotools that develop libewf.

ishitar2021 commented 11 months ago

You'll need to update your version of autotools. Why don't you use a source distribution package, what you are trying to do is only intended for people familiar with autotools that develop libewf.

i have installed all the packages through synaptic package manager. so as iam using ubuntu 18.04 version my package version is autotools-dev 2018224.1 . and my autoconf version was 2.64 in synaptic. so i manually installed the higher version 2.71 but it didnt work for me.

joachimmetz commented 11 months ago

and my autoconf version was 2.64 in synaptic. so i manually installed the higher version 2.71 but it didnt work for me.

that's an issue on your configuration, the scripts and autotools are working fine in the CI tests. Closing this issue given it is not a libewf issue.