HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL

[laodzu]

Trying to do a fresh build I cannot get past step 0:

dzu@krikkit:/opt/src/git/guile-gi (master)$ ./bootstrap

• exec autoreconf -vfi autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS} autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, 'build-aux'. libtoolize: copying file 'build-aux/ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'. libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4' autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing configure.ac:42: installing 'build-aux/compile' configure.ac:25: installing 'build-aux/missing' Makefile.am:240: error: HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Makefile.am: installing 'build-aux/depcomp' autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 dzu@krikkit:/opt/src/git/guile-gi (master)$

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance! Detlev

[spk121]

On Fedora, the file you are missing /usr/share/aclocal/introspection.m4 is provided by the package gobject-introspection-devel

[laodzu]

Excellent, thanks. On Debian bullseye that's just "gobject-introspection".

One step closer but not still there:

dzu@krikkit:/opt/src/git/guile-gi (master)$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style) checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for ar... ar checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar ./configure: line 4271: syntax error near unexpected token 3.0' ./configure: line 4271:GUILE_PKG(3.0 2.2)' dzu@krikkit:/opt/src/git/guile-gi (master)$

I have guile compiled and installed from git master.

Sorry for those stupid questions...

[spk121]

Do you have the file /usr/share/aclocal/guile.m4 installed? It may be that you are missing the Debian analog for guile-3.0-dev or guile-devel

[laodzu]

I do have it in /usr/local/share/aclocal from my local install from git:

dzu@krikkit:/opt/src/git/guile-gi (master)$ ls -l /usr/local/share/aclocal/guile.m4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15726 9. Nov 22:34 /usr/local/share/aclocal/guile.m4 dzu@krikkit:/opt/src/git/guile-gi (master)$

[laodzu]

The lines in configure starting with line 4270 are:

from guile.m4

GUILE_PKG(3.0 2.2) GUILE_PROGS GUILE_FLAGS GUILE_SITE_DIR

So it seems guile.m4 got picked up.

[laodzu]

Urgh. I am not able to prevent that comment sign being picked up by the markdown renderer....

[spk121]

Likely, you have failed to include /usr/local/share/aclocal in your ACLOCAL_PATH. Try running as ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/local/share/aclocal ./bootstrap If that works, you'll probably have other environment variables you'll need to make sure are correct: LD_LIBRARY_PATH and so on

[laodzu]

Ok, thanks. Another step. Finally I had to install "libgirepository1.0-dev" which seems to be somehow equivalent to "gobject-introspection-devel" (how could I not know this!) and now compilation works. LD_LIBRARY_PATH already included the /usr/local stuff without any special setup from my side. I really do wonder why ACLOCAL_PATH requires this special treatment.

Maybe it is not so common anymore to build packages from source outside package management and install it into /usr/local?

Anyway, thanks for solving my problems!