[Buildroot] host-autoconf fails to build, no m4

[Buildroot] host-autoconf fails to build, no m4

[Atilla Filiz]

I was trying to build some host packages, which depend on automake and
autoconf, which in turn fail to build.

>>> host-autoconf 2.69 Building
PATH="/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/bin:/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/sbin:/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin:/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"
PKG_CONFIG="/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/pkg-config"
PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="/"
PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/usr/lib/pkgconfig"
/usr/bin/make -j9  -C
/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/build/host-autoconf-2.69/
make[1]: Entering directory
'/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/build/host-autoconf-2.69'
/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
make[2]: Entering directory
'/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/build/host-autoconf-2.69'
Making all in bin
make[3]: Entering directory
'/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/build/host-autoconf-2.69/bin'
autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'
../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib         --language M4sh --cache ''
--melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in
autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later:
/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/m4
Makefile:641: recipe for target 'autoconf.in' failed
make[3]: *** [autoconf.in] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
'/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/build/host-autoconf-2.69/bin'
Makefile:357: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/build/host-autoconf-2.69'
Makefile:292: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/build/host-autoconf-2.69'
package/pkg-generic.mk:195: recipe for target
'/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/build/host-autoconf-2.69/.stamp_built'
failed
make: ***
[/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/build/host-autoconf-2.69/.stamp_built]
Error 2


/home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/m4 simply doesn't exist and
apparently the package m4 has been deprecated.

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[Buildroot] host-autoconf fails to build, no m4

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:26:21 +0200, Atilla Filiz wrote:
> I was trying to build some host packages, which depend on automake and
> autoconf, which in turn fail to build.

Which version of Buildroot are you using?

> /home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/m4 simply doesn't exist and

This is not possible:

HOST_AUTOCONF_DEPENDENCIES = host-m4 host-libtool

so host-autoconf depends on host-m4, so host-m4 *must* have been built
prior to host-autoconf.

> apparently the package m4 has been deprecated.

The *target* variant of m4, yes. The host variant is still there and
available.

Could you pastebin your Buildroot .config file, as well as the *entire*
build output of "make clean all" ?

Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] host-autoconf fails to build, no m4

[Atilla Filiz]

Hello Thomas

Doing a clean make solved the problem somehow. Before that `make host-m4`
was a no-op.

Regards
Atilla

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <
thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:26:21 +0200, Atilla Filiz wrote:
> > I was trying to build some host packages, which depend on automake and
> > autoconf, which in turn fail to build.
>
> Which version of Buildroot are you using?
>
> > /home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/m4 simply doesn't exist
> and
>
> This is not possible:
>
> HOST_AUTOCONF_DEPENDENCIES = host-m4 host-libtool
>
> so host-autoconf depends on host-m4, so host-m4 *must* have been built
> prior to host-autoconf.
>
> > apparently the package m4 has been deprecated.
>
> The *target* variant of m4, yes. The host variant is still there and
> available.
>
> Could you pastebin your Buildroot .config file, as well as the *entire*
> build output of "make clean all" ?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
>



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