Compiling on Debian Jessie requires installation of automake

[manfredbrandl]

Compiling "harfbuzz" will fail when automake is not installed. Please Update Prequisites for Debian based Linuxes by including automake in the "sudo apt-get install .." command.

Here is the log for failing harfbuzz without automake installed:

failed to run custom build command for harfbuzz-sys v0.1.2
Process didn't exit successfully: /home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/target/release/build/harfbuzz-sys-278d3b2daab5baa1/build-script-build (exit code: 101)
--- stdout
cd /home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/target/release/build/harfbuzz-sys-278d3b2daab5baa1/out && /home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-0a35038f75765ae4/harfbuzz-sys-0.1.2/harfbuzz/configure --prefix=/home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/target/release/build/harfbuzz-sys-278d3b2daab5baa1/out --host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --enable-static --without-icu --without-freetype --without-glib
CFLAGS="-fPIC -O2" CXXFLAGS="-fPIC -O2"
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/hb-version.h
config.status: creating src/hb-ucdn/Makefile
config.status: creating util/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating test/api/Makefile
config.status: creating test/shaping/Makefile
config.status: creating docs/Makefile
config.status: creating docs/version.xml
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
configure:

Build configuration:

Unicode callbacks (you want at least one):
Glib: false
ICU: false
UCDN: true

Font callbacks (the more the better):
FreeType: false

Tools used for command-line utilities:
Cairo: false
Fontconfig: true

Additional shapers (the more the better):
Graphite2: false

Platform shapers (not normally needed):
CoreText: false
Uniscribe: false

Other features:
Documentation: no
GObject bindings: false
Introspection: false

cd /home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/target/release/build/harfbuzz-sys-278d3b2daab5baa1/out && make -j2
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/target/release/build/harfbuzz-sys-278d3b2daab5baa1/out'
(CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd /home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-0a35038f75765ae4/harfbuzz-sys-0.1.2/harfbuzz && /bin/bash /home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-0a35038f75765ae4/harfbuzz-sys-0.1.2/harfbuzz/missing autoheader)
Makefile:462: recipe for target '/home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-0a35038f75765ae4/harfbuzz-sys-0.1.2/harfbuzz/config.h.in' failed
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/target/release/build/harfbuzz-sys-278d3b2daab5baa1/out'
makefile.cargo:31: recipe for target 'all' failed

--- stderr
configure: WARNING:
You will not be able to create source packages with 'make dist'
because gtk-doc >= 1.15 is not found.
make[1]: Warnung: -jN in »make«-Verarbeitungszweig erzwungen:
Jobserver-Modus nicht verfügbar.
/home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-0a35038f75765ae4/harfbuzz-sys-0.1.2/harfbuzz/missing: Zeile 81: autoheader: Kommando nicht gefunden.
WARNING: 'autoheader' is missing on your system.
You should only need it if you modified 'acconfig.h' or
'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
The 'autoheader' program is part of the GNU Autoconf package:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
It also requires GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
http://www.perl.org/
make[1]: *** [/home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-0a35038f75765ae4/harfbuzz-sys-0.1.2/harfbuzz/config.h.in] Error 127
make: *** [all] Error 2
thread '

' panicked at 'assertion failed: Command::new("make").args(&["-R", "-f", "makefile.cargo",
&format!("-j{}" , env:: var ( "NUM_JOBS" ) .
unwrap (
))]).status().unwrap().success()', /home/manfred/Sonstiges/servo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-0a35038f75765ae4/harfbuzz-sys-0.1.2/build.rs:14

[jdm]

Could you make a pull request to add this to the requirements in https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/README.md ?

[metajack]

I'm very worried about depending on automake. This means that we are rebuilding autoconfig stuff when we shouldn't be.

Can we get around this problem (which I'm guessing is caused by git checkout timestamp issues) by running touch on the final build products or something? Surely there is some better way that to require everyone (most people not needing it ever) to install automake and friends.

[manfredbrandl]

@jdm Sorry, I don't know enough from github or git to make a pull request
@metajack After the initial error I have tried restarting compilation of servo several times without installing automake and it alway failed at compiling harfbuzz. I have a relatively fresh debian jessie install. Should I try deinstalling automake and restarting compiling servo from a fresh start?

[metajack]

Automake is used to generate Makefile.in which configure will use to create a Makefile. Makefile.in should already exist in harfbuzz, but the Makefile rules are triggering it to regenerate because the timestamps aren't right after the git checkout.

If Makefile.in does not exist in git, then we should add automake to Servo deps. If it does, we should try and find a workaround or fix for the timestamp issue.

[jinwooahn]

Thank you. I had same error. After installing automake, I can build servo successfully.

[mbrubeck]

The root cause of this is servo/rust-harfbuzz#54

[jdm]

Documentation update for the time being: #9128

[ahnjinwoo]

autoconf is current solution? Thanks.