I have a question when working with autotools, specifically when working with generating configure scripts by running autoreconf -fi I'll get these warnings: libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'. libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh' libtoolize: Consider adding 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' to configure.ac, libtoolize: and rerunning libtoolize and aclocal. libtoolize: Consider adding '-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. configure.ac:12: installing './compile' configure.ac:15: installing './config.guess' configure.ac:15: installing './config.sub' configure.ac:6: installing './install-sh' configure.ac:6: installing './missing' Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL' src/Makefile.am:5: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS') src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp' src/filteropt/Makefile.am:3: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS') src/memory/Makefile.am:3: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS') src/pagemanager/Makefile.am:3: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS') src/raster/Makefile.am:5: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS') src/raster/blendSource/Makefile.am:3: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS') After this I can manually go through and change INCLUDES to AM_CPPFLAGS as well as adding -I m4 but shouldn't I be able to update the configure files so that I do not get these warnings? Where would I make those edits so that I can avoid these warnings?

I am trying to compile a package (libdrm-2.4.59) and to use sed and autoreconf to remove a dependency: sed -e "/pthread-stubs/d" -i configure.ac && autoreconf -fiv It produces the following output: autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /u/f0/students/estermad/tmp/share/aclocal --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS} autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --install --copy --force libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, 'build-aux'. libtoolize: copying file 'build-aux/config.guess' libtoolize: copying file 'build-aux/config.sub' libtoolize: copying file 'build-aux/install-sh' libtoolize: copying file 'build-aux/ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'. libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4' libtoolize: You should add the contents of 'm4/libtool.m4' to 'aclocal.m4'. libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: You should add the contents of 'm4/ltoptions.m4' to 'aclocal.m4'. libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: You should add the contents of 'm4/ltsugar.m4' to 'aclocal.m4'. libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4' libtoolize: You should add the contents of 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4' to 'aclocal.m4'. autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing configure.ac:32: installing `build-aux/missing' exynos/Makefile.am: installing `build-aux/depcomp' autoreconf: Leaving directory `.' This looks fine so far but as I call configure the build stops with a strange error: ... checking for pkg-config... /u/f0/students/estermad/tmp/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for PCIACCESS... configure: error: in `/u/f0/students/estermad/xc/libdrm-2.4.59': configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config. ... Here are some parts of the config.log which show the error, the corresponding compiler and linker flags which were set correctly and the values related to pkg-config which are not set: configure:12927: checking for PCIACCESS configure:12932: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "pciaccess >= 0.10" configure:12935: $? = 0 configure:12945: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "pciaccess >= 0.10" configure:12948: $? = 0 configure:12970: error: in `/u/f0/students/estermad/xc/libdrm-2.4.59': ... ac_cv_env_PCIACCESS_CFLAGS_set=set ac_cv_env_PCIACCESS_CFLAGS_value=-I/u/f0/students/estermad/tmp/include ac_cv_env_PCIACCESS_LIBS_set=set ac_cv_env_PCIACCESS_LIBS_value='-L/u/f0/students/estermad/tmp/lib -lpciaccess' ac_cv_env_PKG_CONFIG_set= ac_cv_env_PKG_CONFIG_value= The autoreconf uses libtoolize which was missing on my system so I had to build libtool myself. All builds I do on this system have a prefix. The prefix used to build dependencies of libdrm among other things. For libtool I ran following: $ cd libtool-2.4.5 $ ./configure --prefix=/u/f0/students/estermad/tmp && make && make install $ libtool --finish /u/f0/students/estermad/tmp/lib However the build and install of the libtool runs without any errors. I have no idea if the resulting configure-script is corrupted due to autoreconf (located in /usr/bin/autoreconf), libtoolize (located in /u/f0/students/estermad/tmp/bin), aclocal or something different. I tried to build libdrm without using autoreconf, commenting out pthread-stubs manually. The build ran fine. Hence the above stated issue reveals only after running autoreconf. I would really appreciate some useful hints.

I have compiled a package that uses autotools as build system (autoreconf, ./configure, make, make install). ./configure stops when a package is missing. For each missing package, I look up its name, then either I do apt install package or I compile it from source if not available. Then I run ./configure again and it tells me the name of another unsatisfied dependency. If there are only one or two missing packages, this is ok. But there were 19! libmspack-dev libglib2.0-dev libpam0g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libx11-dev libcunit1-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxtst-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libtool dnet I would like ./configure to continue on error, and show me all missing packages at once, so I can install them all at once. Otherwise it is long and painful to run ./configure and apt install 19 times.

I am trying to compile a gnome application and I am curious what the output means when I run the autogen.sh script: ~/Documents/Code/window-picker-applet $./autogen.sh autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --install --copy libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force data/Makefile.am:11: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension data/Makefile.am:11: wildcard $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name data/Makefile.am:11: (probably a GNU make extension) autoreconf: Leaving directory `.' [Output trunkated...] Why am I getting the info configure.ac: not using Gettext? Is that a warning and should I change some of the configuration files to fix it? I know the application has a po/ folder so I think it should be using Gettext, hence I am confused about this warning. I also had a lot of warnings with the N_ macro not being defined, so this might be related? **[Update]** See comment below **[/Update]**

I'm trying to build the xcb-util-xrm library manually. I found two links with build instructions one from the issue tracker of i3gaps and one from this bug report here . The instructions in the first link are from 2016, in summary git clone https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm cd xcb-util-xrm git submodule update --init ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make sudo make install Instructions in the second link are from 2013: > 1) Add LT_INIT to configure.ac > 2) Make autogen.sh do "rm -rf m4; git submodule update --init" My question is, how can I build this library under ubuntu 16.04.1 if I only downloaded and extracted the zip file from git hub ? What I did so far, I added LT_INIT to configure.ac. Then I ran the following command twice, one time with prefix option and once without. Both times I end up with the same result: $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force Makefile.am:35: error: 'pkgconfig_DATA' is used but 'pkgconfigdir' is undefined Makefile.am:26: error: 'xcbinclude_HEADERS' is used but 'xcbincludedir' is undefined autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 My next investigation was to open autogen.sh (you can see the content of the file on git hub). This file contains two major commands and the first one autoreconf -v --install || exit 1 returns the whole error stack above. My problem is I don't know how to solve the error: > Makefile.am:35: error: 'pkgconfig_DATA' is used but 'pkgconfigdir' is > undefined I just opened Makefile.am and found the line 35 pkgconfig_DATA = xcb-xrm.pc. And I checked what's the default path for my pkg-config, but till now I have no clue how and where I can define pkgconfigdir. $pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig

I'm working on a project that has a custom INSTALL file. Running automake --add-missing (or more precisely, autoreconf -i) will generate the GNU default INSTALL file, and overwrite our file with it. How can I prevent this behavior? I want it to either not generate the GNU INSTALL file at all, or alternatively, create it with a different name. Also, I don't want to disable any other files that automake might generate. --- **Edit 1:** From the [automake manual](https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Gnits.html) : > If the --add-missing option is given, automake will add a generic > version of the INSTALL file as well as the COPYING file containing the > text of the current version of the GNU General Public License [...]. However, an existing COPYING > file will never be overwritten by automake. It says that an existing COPYING file will not be overwritten, but doesn't say anything about the INSTALL file, so it seems like it will be unconditionally overwritten. **Edit 2:** As requested, here are my configure.ac and Makefile.am, and also autogen.sh that we run to autoreconf the project: configure.ac: AC_INIT([program name], [version number], [bug report], [short name], [url]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Main/Source/main.cpp]) AM_PROG_AS AC_CANONICAL_TARGET AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_CXX CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $SDL_CFLAGS " LIBS="$LIBS $SDL_LIBS" CPPFLAGS="$SDL_CFLAGS -DLINUX -DLOCAL_STATE_DIR=\\\"$sharedstatedir/\\\" -DDATADIR=\\\"$datadir\\\" -DUSE_SDL -DGCC" AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_PROG_RANLIB AC_CONFIG_FILES() AC_OUTPUT Makefile.am: SUBDIRS = FooLib Main Bar Baz EXTRA_DIST = LICENSING autogen.sh: autoreconf -f -i

When I cloned [hulahop](http://git.sugarlabs.org/hulahop) I had a [few possibilities](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24935/how-can-i-install-hulahop/24936#24936) to install it. I have chosen the path with autogen.sh I used commands: $ sh autogen.sh # -> OK $ ./configure # -> OK But make fails: $ sudo make 2> errors.txt $ cat errors.txt hulahop.cpp:28:29: error: pyxpcom/PyXPCOM.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/python2.6/Python.h:8, from hulahop-web-view.h:23, from hulahop.h:23, from hulahop.cpp:31: /usr/include/python2.6/pyconfig.h:395:1: warning: "HAVE_LONG_LONG" redefined In file included from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nspr/prtypes.h:58, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nscore.h:51, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nsDebug.h:42, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nsCOMPtr.h:59, from hulahop.cpp:20: /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nspr/prcpucfg.h:807:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from /usr/include/python2.6/Python.h:8, from hulahop-web-view.h:23, from hulahop.h:23, from hulahop.cpp:31: /usr/include/python2.6/pyconfig.h:1031:1: warning: "_POSIX_C_SOURCE" redefined In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:27, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nspr/obsolete/protypes.h:79, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nspr/prtypes.h:517, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nscore.h:51, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nsDebug.h:42, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nsCOMPtr.h:59, from hulahop.cpp:20: /usr/include/features.h:158:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from /usr/include/python2.6/Python.h:8, from hulahop-web-view.h:23, from hulahop.h:23, from hulahop.cpp:31: /usr/include/python2.6/pyconfig.h:1040:1: warning: "_XOPEN_SOURCE" redefined In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:27, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nspr/obsolete/protypes.h:79, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nspr/prtypes.h:517, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nscore.h:51, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nsDebug.h:42, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.24/nsCOMPtr.h:59, from hulahop.cpp:20: /usr/include/features.h:160:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition hulahop.cpp: In function ‘HulahopWebView* hulahop_get_view_for_window(PyObject*)’: hulahop.cpp:101: error: ‘Py_nsISupports’ has not been declared hulahop.cpp:112: error: ‘do_GetService’ was not declared in this scope make: *** [hulahop.lo] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Could you help me with compilation?