id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 4249 Autoreconf is failing with tarball prepared by make dist IceMan andrew_b "`autoreconf -fisv` is failing with sources tarball prepared by `make dist` command after 1409eddde3671dce6ff3763931ecc24a8a5b987f {{{ 1409eddde3671dce6ff3763931ecc24a8a5b987f is the first bad commit commit 1409eddde3671dce6ff3763931ecc24a8a5b987f Author: Andreas Mohr Date: Sat Mar 20 10:02:12 2021 +0300 Ticket #3603: configure.ac: proper AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE usage. Fix deprecate warning configure.ac:13: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated. For more info, see: configure.ac:13: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation Support of m4_esyscmd_s() since autoconf-2.64 (release 2009-07-26). Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr Signed-off-by: Andrew Borodin :100644 100644 45a20fb865c4d57065fc5aa8f9735f48ba8e0abb cb81a7487e443dac4a052e13e630d660aeda9e54 M configure.ac :040000 040000 6acb4b4b42224d1fb4ed255fbef02a7f603195fd da92ed3d9ba4ba573016c29e18d47bbc8a5f8af7 M doc :040000 040000 8c849720e9e319b89a387c75dbda878257e5f4af 52ac4430d861a5756eb3a47d89e7ab1c3a239846 M m4.include :040000 040000 1c32feb62d638879b35117239e501d6ef18975a7 f8749bde97e65c30a4a83919912209268f5b88a6 M maint }}} '''Steps to reproduce:''' {{{ git clone https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc.git cd mc/ ./autogen.sh ./configure make dist tar -xf mc-4.8.*.tar.gz rm mc-4.8.*.tar.gz cd mc-4.8.* autoreconf -fisv }}} '''What is the expected output?''' `autoreconf -fisv` finished without error '''What do you see instead?''' {{{ $ autoreconf -fisv autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: running: autopoint --force Copying file m4/codeset.m4 Copying file m4/fcntl-o.m4 Copying file m4/glibc2.m4 Copying file m4/glibc21.m4 Copying file m4/intdiv0.m4 Copying file m4/intl.m4 Copying file m4/intldir.m4 Copying file m4/intmax.m4 Copying file m4/inttypes-pri.m4 Copying file m4/inttypes_h.m4 Copying file m4/lcmessage.m4 Copying file m4/lock.m4 Copying file m4/printf-posix.m4 Copying file m4/size_max.m4 Copying file m4/stdint_h.m4 Copying file m4/threadlib.m4 Copying file m4/uintmax_t.m4 Copying file m4/visibility.m4 Copying file m4/wchar_t.m4 Copying file m4/wint_t.m4 Copying file m4/xsize.m4 Copying file po/Makevars.template autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 sh: 1: maint/utils/version.sh: not found configure.ac:31: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments /usr/share/aclocal-1.16/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from... configure.ac:31: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 }}}" defect closed minor 4.8.27 mc-core master fixed merged committed-master