tag 16530 notabug close 16530 stop On 01/23/2014 06:22 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Follow-up: > > On 01/23/2014 11:47 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: >> >> Just tried to compile coreutils from scratch, and encountered the following >> problem: >> === >> $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils >> $ cd coreutils >> $ ./bootstrap > <...snip...> >> /usr/bin/m4: m4_esyscmd subprocess failed >> /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:444: cannot open `m4/cu-progs.m4': No such file or >> directory >> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 >> autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a >> line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is >> using >> autopoint: *** Stop. >> === >> > > Upgrading to autoconf version 2.69 and M4 version 1.4.17 solved this issue > (but note that "bootstrap" required autoconf>=2.59 and I had 2.65 installed).
coreutils bootstrap.conf actually has >= 2.64 specified. Anyway using this documented method for getting specific versions: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=README-prereq;hb=HEAD I tried to reproduce with autoconf-2.65 and I couldn't. Then I tried with m4-1.4.13 and still couldn't. So my next guess is that it's an incompat between your newer automake-1.14 and your autoconf-2.65. Indeed when I went to build automake-1.14 it bailed saying it needed autoconf 2.69 or higher. So where did you get this automake-1.14? I suspect it is bumping the autoconf version requirement up. I'm closing this for now. thanks, Pádraig.