Syntax Error on LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG

[godofgrunts]

uname -a
Linux 3.13.0-36-generic #63-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 3 21:30:07 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce:

git clone https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer.git
cd cpuminer
./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"

./configure: line 5609: syntax error near unexpected token ,' ./configure: line 5609:LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG(, 7.15.2, ,'

In configure:

5609:LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG(, 7.15.2, ,
5610: AC_MSG_ERROR([Missing required libcurl >= 7.15.2]))

[pooler]

You need the development package for libcurl, did you install it? If not, try with libcurl4-openssl-dev.

[godofgrunts]

Yes, sorry I should have mentioned that.

Just to check, I tried to reinstall

libcurl4-openssl-dev is already the newest version.
libcurl4-openssl-dev:amd64/trusty-security 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.1 uptodate

[pooler]

What version of Ubuntu are you on?
It is possible that your libcurl-dev package is missing libcurl.m4.
At any rate, you should have no problem building cpuminer from the latest tarball rather than from the git repo.

[godofgrunts]

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/libcurl4-openssl-dev/filelist

libcurl.m4 is located in /usr/share/aclocal (confirmed on my system as well)

I'll try the tarball

[pooler]

Did you (re)run autogen.sh after installing libcurl-dev?

[godofgrunts]

I installed libcurl-dev before the git clone.

Just to be sure, deleted the and recloned. Same error.

Tarball did work however.

[godofgrunts]

Strange. I rebooted and tried again and it worked...

I don't know what that fixed but it's working now. I did have some updates this morning, but I didn't really think anything of it.

Closing ticket.