autoconf -f fails on a fresh git clone

[dimitarvp]

Curreng GIT revision I am testing on: c391479c5852f165c4be85b6e39d1290ae2d4a58.

Running ./autogen.sh yields this output:

$ ./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I osm2pgsql/m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory osm2pgsql to autoreconf
autoreconf: Entering directory `osm2pgsql'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoconf
autoreconf: Leaving directory `osm2pgsql'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:25: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

A small further research pinpointed the problem at the autoconf --force command.

Versions:

autoconf, autoreconf: 2.69
automake: 1.14.1
pkg-config: 0.28
Linux: 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt2-1 (2014-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux (a VirtualBox machine)

Went on a small Google hunt and also tried this:

mkdir osm2pgsql/m4
aclocal -I m4 --install

That seems to have helped a few people, but not in this case.

It's been a long time since I used autoconf/automake extensively. Could you provide help?

[lonvia]

Please, check if you have the autoconf-archive package installed.

[dimitarvp]

@lonvia Can't believe it was something that simple. Sorry.

Might help if you add another pre-install step?

sudo apt-get install automake autoconf autoconf-archive pkg-config

Thank you for your help!

[dimitarvp]

While we're at this:

./configure --enable-64bit-ids
./configure: line 4521: AX_LIB_GEOS: command not found
configure: error: required library not found

I have libgeos-dev, libgeos++-dev, libgeos-c1, libgeos-3.3.3, libgeos-3.4.2 installed. What am I missing?

[lonvia]

That normally happens when you forgot to clone recursively. Does git submodule update --init help?

[dimitarvp]

$ git submodule update --init
Submodule 'osm2pgsql' (https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql.git) registered for path 'osm2pgsql'
Cloning into 'osm2pgsql'...
remote: Counting objects: 5217, done.
remote: Total 5217 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (5217/5217), 31.11 MiB | 1.91 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3698/3698), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Submodule path 'osm2pgsql': checked out '7d780c931c209f539c84e7d02a8f12f2a81e4d67'

So it did indeed download it, but the ./configure --enable-64bit-ids did throw the same error afterwards.

[lonvia]

You have to run autogen.sh again.

I've added the missing dependency in the installation instructions.

[dimitarvp]

Thank you for your continuing help!

./autogen.sh procudes a lot of output now, but stops here:

autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
configure.ac:44: error: required file '../ltmain.sh' not found
Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

Thanks for the Wiki update. Might help if you also copy the recursive clone instructions; that might not be obvious to everybody -- that's pretty evident, taking me as an example ;)

EDIT: Solved it myself. This might help you in making your install / Wiki docs complete:

https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Error-required-file-ltmain_002esh-not-found.html

(Basically invoked libtoolize before ./autogen.sh; the articles states it should be invoked before aclocal and automake, though, hope this helps.)

[lonvia]

autoconf seems to get confused occasionally, it might be a good idea to simply start from scratch with git clone --recursive git://github.com/twain47/Nominatim.git.

The recursive clone instructions are already there and so is the command how to recover if you forgot. I could add the latter to the quick instructions in the readme.

[dimitarvp]

Fair enough. I admit I didn't even look at the Wiki. I came to the GitHub repo with the expectation that the instructions here are complete.

Hopefully this ticket will help you a little with your docs here on GitHub; I took a few minutes now to check the Wiki and it is indeed very well written. Nice job.

Thanks a lot for your help!