[Motion-user] error autoreconf in motion

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

Hi,

I sent a bug report and question May 22 but am extremely disappointed to 
get no reply.

Today I've tried again after upgrading the Raspbian OS.

/usr/share/audvid/src/motion $ git pull

  7 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

$ 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 5.10.103-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) #1529 SMP Tue Mar 8 12:24:00 GMT 2022

$ cat /etc/debian_version
10.13

$ 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

autotools-dev is already the newest version (20180224.1).

There must be some detail I left out or forgot to be ignored... Thank 
you for your help.