htslib make install error on 3 production servers

[comatosejones]

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find @VERSION_SCRIPT_LDFLAGS@: No such file or directory collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Makefile:358: libhts.so] Error 1

[daviesrob]

You probably need to rebuild your configure script and re-run it:

autoreconf -i
./configure

[comatosejones]

That worked, ty -- would it be prudent to rebuild before every update?

[jkbonfield]

Yes. It won't harm, and any new release may in theory add something to the configure.ac and related machinery.