Hi Andraea, > Le 21 sept. 2021 à 16:45, Andrea Monaco <andrea.mon...@autistici.org> a écrit > : > > > Hello, > > > I'm trying to rebuild a bison-3.8 release tree, but "make clean" aborts > with this error: > > > CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash > '/root/bison-3.8/build-aux/missing' autoconf > /root/bison-3.8/build-aux/missing: line 81: autoconf: command not found > WARNING: 'autoconf' is missing on your system. > You should only need it if you modified 'configure.ac', > or m4 files included by it. > The 'autoconf' program is part of the GNU Autoconf package: > <https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> > It also requires GNU m4 and Perl in order to run: > <https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/> > <https://www.perl.org/> > Makefile:3894: recipe for target 'configure' failed > make: *** [configure] Error 127 > > > Is it expected?
Nope. > I don't think I modified configure.ac or any m4 file, so > autoconf shouldn't be needed. Also, I think it's unusual in any case to > require autotools for a basic operation such as make clean. Yes, it is. > I'm on a recent GNU/Hurd release, if it's important. It shouldn't be. I can't reproduce your problem. I have run configure, make, make clean, make, without any problem (autoconf was not called). Maybe something was touched in your tree, I don't know. Cheers!