#130 build fails with missing depcomp

[Martin Schröder]

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

[Arthur Reutenauer]

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.

[David M. Jones]

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

[Michael Osipov]

Same issue here on FreeBSD 10.4-STABLE. This helped me: https://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2016-September/026823.html