package autotools: '$SAGE_LOCAL/automake-1.11.6/share/aclocal': No such file or directory

[mkoeppe]

I get this when installing ecm.

A workaround is:

cd automake-1.11.6/share/ && ln -s aclocal-1.11/ aclocal

Unclear if this a bug of a specific automake version, or a general shortcoming of the installation scheme of our autotools. This needs investigating.

Component: packages: optional

Author: Erik Bray

Branch/Commit: 099da4f

Reviewer: Matthias Koeppe

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21526

[embray]

comment:1

I'm seeing this too when trying to build giac.

[embray]

comment:2

The directory it's complaining about is a path that aclocal searches for "system-wide" m4 macros (which since we install a bunch of automake versions ends up localized to local/automake-<version>). Some newer automake versions are creating this directory by default (empty, except for a README file) whereas older versions, it seems, do not create it by default.

For older versions we may have to create it.

aclocal has a function that scans this directory for m4 macros, but the function errors out if the directory does not exist (which itself seems a bit unnecessary...)

[embray]

Author: Erik Bray

[embray]

Branch: u/embray/build/ticket-21526

[embray]

comment:3

This fixes the issue. The question remains why building giac is invoking autoconf in the first place--it shouldn't be. But that's a separate issue.

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New commits:

2f2ea87

Fixes #21526 by simply creating the empty directory if it doesn't exist.

[embray]

Commit: 2f2ea87

[mkoeppe]

comment:4

Looks good to me.

It seems to be recommended though that the patch level is increased when there is a change to the package like this.

[mkoeppe]

Reviewer: Matthias Koeppe

[embray]

comment:6

You are right, it should probably bump the patch level.

[sagetrac-git]

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:

099da4f

Bump autotools package version so it will reinstall with this fix

[sagetrac-git]

Changed commit from 2f2ea87 to 099da4f

[vbraun]

Changed branch from u/embray/build/ticket-21526 to 099da4f