[Motion-user] error autoreconf from fresh git clone

[Stewart A. <san...@gm...>]

Hi,

I pulled a fresh clone with git

but am getting an error. Have dependencies changed since the last time I 
compiled?

$ git clone https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion.git
Cloning into 'motion'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 8115, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (687/687), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (266/266), done.
remote: Total 8115 (delta 472), reused 600 (delta 413), pack-reused 7428
Receiving objects: 100% (8115/8115), 7.50 MiB | 697.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6061/6061), done.

$ cd motion

$ autoreconf -fiv
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file config.rpath
Creating directory m4
Copying file m4/codeset.m4
Copying file m4/extern-inline.m4
Copying file m4/fcntl-o.m4
Copying file m4/gettext.m4
Copying file m4/glibc2.m4
Copying file m4/glibc21.m4
Copying file m4/iconv.m4
Copying file m4/intdiv0.m4
Copying file m4/intl.m4
Copying file m4/intldir.m4
Copying file m4/intlmacosx.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/lib-ld.m4
Copying file m4/lib-link.m4
Copying file m4/lib-prefix.m4
Copying file m4/lock.m4
Copying file m4/longlong.m4
Copying file m4/nls.m4
Copying file m4/po.m4
Copying file m4/printf-posix.m4
Copying file m4/progtest.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/Makefile.in.in
Copying file po/Makevars.template
Copying file po/Rules-quot
Copying file po/boldquot.sed
Copying file po/en...@bo...
Copying file po/en...@qu...
Copying file po/insert-header.sin
Copying file po/quot.sed
Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
sh: 1: ./scripts/version.sh: Permission denied
configure.ac:2: 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:2: 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

▶May22_1836.54▶ /usr/share/audvid/src/motion ▶pi@raspberrypi3▶0▶
$ sudo autoreconf -fiv
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
sh: 1: ./scripts/version.sh: Permission denied
configure.ac:2: 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:2: 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

$ ls -l scripts/version.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 445 May 22 18:36 scripts/version.sh

It's executable. sh points to dash in this Raspbian.

$ ls -l /bin/sh /bin/dash

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 91896 Jan 17  2019 /bin/dash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     4 Sep 25  2019 /bin/sh -> dash

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 5.10.60-v7l+ (dom@buildbot) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-8 
(Ubuntu/Linaro 8.4.0-3ubuntu1) 8.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 
2.34) #1449 SMP Wed Aug 25 15:00:44 BST 2021

$ cat /etc/debian_version
10.10

$ ls -l /usr/share/aclocal-1.16/init.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8032 Nov  4  2018 /usr/share/aclocal-1.16/init.m4

$ sudo apt install autotools-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
autotools-dev is already the newest version (20180224.1).