URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110599>
Summary: configure doesn't actually check to see if make is
installed
Project: Autoconf
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Wed 26 Jan 2022 04:02:27 PM UTC
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 3 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Email: bi...@mit.edu
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: GNU/Linux
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Details:
Of all the things configure checks for by default, it doesn't actually check
that a suitable version of 'make' is installed on the host system. As such, if
you install the autotools but fail to install make, the configure script can
be generated, but it failed rather ungracefully at the end when running
depfiles commands.
Example:
...
checking for initscr in -lncurses... yes
checking for getopt... yes
checking for getopt_long... yes
checking for nodelay... yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: error: in `/root/Documents/curses-speedtest':
config.status: error: Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
for automatic dependency tracking. Try re-running configure with the
'--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build
the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking).
See `config.log' for more details
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