Autotools issue on centos 6

[adamlamar]

Hello,

I've had some issues building nfdump on centos 6. The configure script runs successfully, but make wants aclocal-1.15, which doesn't exist:

$ make
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /home/user/nfdump/missing aclocal-1.15
/home/user/nfdump/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.15: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.15' 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

Any suggestions? I tried various incantations of autotools with no luck.

[bbayles]

I had the same issue and solved it with an autoreconf -if beore ./configure and make.

[adamlamar]

@bbayles Thanks, that worked for me. I ran autoreconf but not with -if previously. Should this be part of the documentation, or does someone need to commit to the repository after running an older version of autotools?

[bbayles]

+1 for adding to the documentation. I do autoreconf -if as a habit and usually add it to build scripts.

[phaag]

I will update the docu accordingly. You may use the bootstrap.sh script in case you had changes to any autoconf files.

[phaag]

README updated