You must have automake > 1.10 or 1.11 installed to compile this program.

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Describe the bug yay installation fails due automake version mismatch

To Reproduce yay -Sy automake lxpolkit-git

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS (including version): Arch 6.9.9 (amd64)
• DE: i3wm
• Version of polkit: lxpolkit-git-1:0.1.0.r34.g55fc5d4-5

Additional context lxpolkit says my automake version has to be > 1.10 or 1.11 but my version is 1.17 Looking at your Source i found two checks

if [ "$AM_INSTALLED_VERSION" != "1.10" \
    -a "$AM_INSTALLED_VERSION" != "1" ];then
...

But this Checks just 1.10. So i tried installing autmake from source (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.10.1.tar.gz) but then i get configure: error: cannot find required auxiliary files: missing install-sh So i tried patching autogen.sh to check for 1.17 That just gave me

./configure: line 4212: syntax error near unexpected token `0.40.0'
./configure: line 4212: `IT_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.40.0)' 

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[mbiebl]

The automake/autotools based build system has been removed a long time ago (c5c6b784221b9dc054548c15e94719c4e961a7f2) so whatever failure you have with automake is no longer relevant for polkit.

[ghost]

yeah well i used yay and got that Error but now for some reason its already installed and working EDIT: for those with the same Error, try installing it with pacman