ERL-1455: configure: error: cannot find required auxiliary files: install-sh config.guess config.sub

[OTP-Maintainer]

Original reporter: JIRAUSER17128
Affected version: OTP-23.2
Component: Not Specified
Migrated from: https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-1455

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I tried `_makepkg -i_` on Arch Linux's _PKGBUILD_ that uses _23.2_, and I tried it myself from _otp_src_23.2.tar.gz_ that can be downloaded from the website.
I did run `_./otp_build autoconf_` as per instructed, and I did try `_./otp_build all -a_` as well.

I get the following error in all cases:

{code}
=== Running configure in /tmp/otp_src_23.2/make ===
./configure '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-native-libs' '--enable-builtin-zlib' '--enable-smp-support' '--with-odbc' '--with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config-gtk3' CFLAGS='-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt' LDFLAGS='-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now' --disable-option-checking --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir="/tmp/otp_src_23.2/"
configure: error: cannot find required auxiliary files: install-sh config.guess config.sub
ERROR: /tmp/otp_src_23.2/make/configure failed!
{code}

It cannot seem to find those files even though they do exist in `_/tmp/otp_src_23.2/erts/autoconf_`.

Any ideas? I managed to change the `_configure_` files by hand and point to another directory with those files and it seems to work, but I ran into another error which I have forgotten. In any case, I think you should look into compiling it yourself and see if you can reproduce it.

[OTP-Maintainer]

rickard said:

This is a duplicate of ERL-1447. A fix has been merged into the {{maint}} and {{master}} branches, and the fix will be released in next patch released.