Unable to build using `autoreconf`

[RexWzh]

Hi. I'm writing a wrapper of zbar, which uses the command autoreconf -vfi to generate the executable file configure. However, it failed with the following message:

autoreconf Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 345

Version info

Julia Version 1.6.3
Commit ae8452a9e0 (2021-09-23 17:34 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU @ 1.00GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-11.0.1 (ORCJIT, icelake-client)

It seems that autopoint is missing in the default environment of the container. I've tried the apt-get command but failed. How can I fix it? Thanks in advance!

[RexWzh]

This error might have to do with the discussion JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#3002 (comment) and JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#365: The tool autopoint is not included in the environment of container.

[giordano]

The tool autopoint is not included in the environment of container.

Yes, we don't include out-of-the-box all possible build tools anyone will ever needs. But you can install them. The build environment is based on Alpine Linux v3.15, whose package manager is called apk, not apt-get. autopoint is in the gettext package, so you can install it with apk add gettext. Some recipes in Yggdrasil do something similar.