Build breaks without autoreconf

[yurivict]

When I try building it on FreeBSD using just 'configure', the build breaks:

--- ./Makefile.in ---
WARNING: 'automake-1.15' is probably too old.
         You should only need it if you modified 'Makefile.am' or
         'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
         The 'automake' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
         It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
         <http://www.perl.org/>
*** [./Makefile.in] Error code 63

It succeeds with autoreconf.

Using automake-1.15.1, autoconf-2.69, which are the latest versions.

[kkos]

I don't know what is taking place.
But anyway, I have installed automake 1.15.1 and updated corresponding files in develop branch.
I hope that this problem is solved in the next release.
Tarball is generated by "make dist".

[kkos]

I have checked it on FreeBSD 11.2 in Virtual Box.
./configure; make; cd test; make test; commands are executed normally.
(onig-6.8.2.tar.gz, onig-6.7.1.tar.gz and onig-6.7.0.tar.gz)

$ uname -a
FreeBSD kosakobsd 11.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE #0 r335510: Fri Jun 22 04:32:14 UTC 2018     root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

[h1z1]

Curious because this breaks jq. 1.13.4 is the current in Centos 7. That comes from f97f216 in configure.ac

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wno-portability 1.14])`

Dropping it to 1.13 builds OK, so why the dependency? It's been that way for a few years

[kkos]

I don't know the details about autoconf.
I removed 1.14 from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE().
Does this change fix the problem?

[h1z1]

It does indeed. Not sure if you want to leave that in but with a lower version requirement as a safety.

[kkos]

Thank you.
I leave it this state unless somebody objects.