Re: [Motion-user] error autoreconf from fresh git clone

[Tony R. <yno...@ho...>]

Interesting, and excellent diagnostic information, thank you.
FWIW, it works fine with:
$ cat /etc/debian_version
11.6

On 5/22/23 19:12, Stewart Andreason wrote:
> 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).
>
>
>
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