After a clean start (git clone, build.sh) the build fails with
=== configuring in web2c (/home/ms/tex/xetex/build/texk/web2c) make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ms/tex/xetex/build/texk' make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ms/tex/xetex/build/texk' make: Entering directory '/home/ms/tex/xetex/build/texk/web2c' COPY tangleboot.p cd web2c && make stamp-fixwrites make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ms/tex/xetex/build/texk/web2c/web2c' make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ms/tex/xetex/build/texk/web2c/web2c' GEN w2c/config.h CC kps.o /bin/bash: ../../../../source/texk/web2c/web2c/../../../build-aux/depcomp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Makefile:532: recipe for target 'kps.o' failed make[2]: *** [kps.o] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ms/tex/xetex/build/texk/web2c/web2c' Makefile:951: recipe for target 'stamp-lib' failed make[1]: *** [stamp-lib] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ms/tex/xetex/build/texk/web2c/web2c' Makefile:14532: recipe for target 'web2c/stamp-fixwrites' failed make: *** [web2c/stamp-fixwrites] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/home/ms/tex/xetex/build/texk/web2c'
And yes, source/build-aux/depcomp is missing, although it is created during the autofoo run.
This is an OpenSUSE 13.2 system with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15
Anonymous
Thanks for the report, I remember something of the kind but can’t remember of the top of my head what I did to fix it.
I had the same problem on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with automake 1.15 and found a workaround here: https://github.com/joakim666/colortail/issues/14
Same issue here on FreeBSD 10.4-STABLE. This helped me: https://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2016-September/026823.html