From omorfi bug report 14 https://github.com/flammie/omorfi/issues/14:
not sure if related, but for some reason hfst-installation created hfst-proc as a link to a non-existant file. However, then just replaced that link with real 'hfst-proc' from the precompiled binaries.
Before that change, the omorfi configuration stopped to this:
checking for /work/bin/hfst_v383/bin/hfst-split... yes checking for /work/bin/hfst_v383/bin/hfst-conjunct... yes checking for /work/bin/hfst_v383/bin/hfst-proc... no configure: error: HFST commandline tools are needed in /work/bin/hfst_v383/bin ls -la /work/bin/hfst_v383/bin/hfst-proc /work/bin/hfst_v383/bin/hfst-proc -> hfst-apertium-proc ls -la /work/bin/hfst_v383/bin/hfst-apertium-proc ls: cannot access /work/bin/hfst_v383/bin/hfst-apertium-proc: No such file or directory
and the precompiled version is, which now exists in the hfst-directory
./hfst-proc --version hfst-proc 0.0 (hfst 3.8.2)
hsft-proc needs to be separately enabled with --enable-proc option to configure.sh. This creates the hsft-apertium-proc which is symlinked.
I ran into this when adding HSFT to Mac Homebrew. The symlink step fails if proc is not built. The problem is that these lines in tools/src/hfst-proc/Makefile.am should be disabled if WANT_PROC is disabled:
I don't know Automake well enough so I can't provide a patch.