./configure for centos release 6.7(final) failure

[yifeizuo]

seems somewhere failed of ./configure

checking if gcc -std=gnu99 static flag -static works... no
checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc -std=gnu99 linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for -Bsymbolic-functions linker flag... yes
./configure: line 13121: syntax error near unexpected token `-Wall'
./configure: line 13121: `AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS(-Wall -Werror -Wcast-qual -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations)'
~/json-c$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

[hawicz]

This is actually indicative of a failure earlier, during the autogen.sh step. What version of json-c are you attempting to build?

[yifeizuo]

Directly cloned from master, would it be better to use the latest release?

[yifeizuo]

Just tried with the latest release, unfortunately, things go as:

/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.    -Wall -Werror -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -std=gnu99 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -g -O2 -MT arraylist.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/arraylist.Tpo -c -o arraylist.lo arraylist.c
libtool: Version mismatch error.  This is libtool 2.4.2, but the
libtool: definition of this LT_INIT comes from libtool 2.2.6b.
libtool: You should recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from libtool 2.4.2
libtool: and run autoconf again.
make[2]: *** [arraylist.lo] Error 63

seems related to libtool, looking into that

[yifeizuo]

Cool, working now 👍

[vote539]

For the record, to anyone finding this issue from Google, I solved it by doing,

$ sudo yum install autoconf-archive
$ autoreconf -fi