makefile - autotools 生成的 tarball 的用户收到错误消息 : aclocal-1. 13:找不到命令

Question

我正在分发一个 tarball，其中包含由 autoconf 版本 2.69 生成的安装脚本。在许多不同的机器上都能正常工作。现在，一位在新的 Arch Linux 系统上工作的用户报告 configure 正确执行，但 make 立即终止并显示以下错误消息:

/home/user/project/build-aux/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.13: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.13' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
         'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
         The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
         It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
         <http://www.perl.org/>
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127

项目目录中没有acinclude.m4。用户确保他没有修改 aclocal.m4、configure.ac、m4/ 中的文件或项目中的任何其他内容。

该错误消息对我来说毫无意义:据我所知，当我运行 autoreconf -if 时，会执行 aclocal;它生成一个文件 aclocal.m4，它是我分发的 tarball 的一部分；用户的 make 命令没有理由请求 aclocal。

用户进一步报告说，他可以通过运行 aclocal 自行解决问题。然而，这不是一个干净的解决方案:打包者不应该要求他们的用户安装自动工具，对吗？

为了完整起见，我附上完整的configure.ac:有什么问题吗？

################################################################################
##  FRIDA: fast reliable interactive data analysis                            ##
##  configure.ac: used by 'autoreconf -i' to prepare for 'configure'          ##
##  (C) Joachim Wuttke, Sebastian Busch 2008-                                 ##
##  http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/frida                                      ##
################################################################################

################################################################################
##  Generic initialization                                                    ##
################################################################################

AC_INIT([frida],[post-2.1.8c],[j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de])
#                ^^^^^ delete "post-" for public releases
# project name must be "frida"; this determines the installation directories

AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) # don't insert GNU blala files

################################################################################
##  Select compiler and preprocessors                                         ##
################################################################################

AC_PROG_CXX
AC_LANG(C++)
AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 # provided in directory m4
AC_SUBST(AM_CXXFLAGS,"-g -pedantic -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused-result -Werror")
# for valgrind --leak-check=full frida, use -O0 -fno-inline

# source files that use -D settings must #include "../config.h"
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h]) # also needed to prevent endless -D option lists

AC_PROG_LEX   # LEX,LEXLIB = "flex","-lfl" or "lex","-ll"
if test "$LEX" = :; then
  AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find lex. Aborting.])
fi
AC_PROG_YACC  # YACC = "bison -y" or "byacc" or "yacc"
if test "$YACC" = "yacc"; then
  AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find yacc. Aborting.])
fi

## I put this one here only because qmake does: Make sure off_t is 64-bit in *nix, taken from http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:wlNJ8Qe4dBgJ:www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/privat/libfb-v0.18.4b-src.zip:a/src/rtlib/configure.ac+configure.ac+file+offset+bits&hl=de&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=de&client=firefox-a
AC_DEFINE([_FILE_OFFSET_BITS],64,[File offset bits])

################################################################################
##  Check for headers, defs needed at compile time                            ##
################################################################################

# Consistency check: is source code present?
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/frida2.cpp])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([man/frida.pod])

# Checks for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics
AC_C_CONST
AC_C_INLINE
AC_TYPE_SIZE_T
AC_STRUCT_TM
AC_HEADER_STDBOOL
AC_HEADER_STDC

# Checks for standard includes
AC_FUNC_ALLOCA
AC_FUNC_MALLOC
AC_FUNC_REALLOC
AC_FUNC_MKTIME
AC_FUNC_STRFTIME

AC_CHECK_FUNCS([gettimeofday],,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find gettimeofday.]))
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([memset],      ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find memset.]))
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([mkfifo],      ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find mkfifo.]))
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strchr],      ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find strchr.]))

AC_CHECK_HEADERS([fcntl.h],        ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find fcntl.h.]))
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([math.h],         ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find math.h.]))

# The following headers are needed for code produced by lexx and yacc
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([inttypes.h],     ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find inttypes.h.]))
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([libintl.h],      ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find libintl.h.]))
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([malloc.h],       ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find malloc.h.]))
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([unistd.h],       ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find unistd.h.]))
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([stddef.h],       ,AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find stddef.h.]))

# Non-standard includes
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([gsl/gsl_rng.h gsl/gsl_randist.h gsl/gsl_math.h \
                  gsl/gsl_errno.h gsl/gsl_integration.h gsl/gsl_roots.h \
                  gsl/gsl_sf.h gsl/gsl_sf_debye.h],,
                 AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find required gsl headers.]))

# C includes of our own
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([kww.h],,  AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find kww.h.]))
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([cerf.h],, AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find cerf.h.]))

# C++ includes of our own
AC_TRY_CPP([#include<boost/format.hpp>],,
    AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find boost/format.hpp.]))
AC_TRY_CPP([#include<boost/shared_ptr.hpp>],,
    AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find boost/shared_ptr.hpp.]))

AC_TRY_CPP([#include<trivia/file_ops.hpp>],,
    AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find trivia/file_ops.hpp.]))
AC_TRY_CPP([#include<readplus/readln.hpp>],,
    AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find readplus/readln.hpp.]))
AC_TRY_CPP([#include<yamlfreeze/yaml.hpp>],,
        AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find yamlfreeze/yaml.hpp.]))

################################################################################
##  Check for libraries, needed at link time                                  ##
################################################################################

# From standard packages
AC_SEARCH_LIBS([cos], [m],, [AC_MSG_ERROR(libm not found or corrupted)])
AC_SEARCH_LIBS([cblas_dgemm], [gslcblas],,
             [AC_MSG_ERROR(libgslcblas not found or out of sync)])
AC_SEARCH_LIBS([gsl_blas_dgemm], [gsl],,
            [AC_MSG_ERROR(libgsl not found or out of sync)])
AC_SEARCH_LIBS([fftw_plan_r2r_1d], [fftw3],,
              [AC_MSG_ERROR(libfftw not found or out of sync)])
AC_SEARCH_LIBS([rl_completion_matches], [readline],,
             [AC_MSG_ERROR(libreadline not found or corrupted)])

# From our own C packages
AC_CHECK_LIB([lmfit], [lmmin], ,
              [AC_MSG_ERROR(liblmfit not found or out of sync)])
AC_CHECK_LIB([kww], [kwwp], ,
            [AC_MSG_ERROR(libkww not found or out of sync)])
AC_CHECK_LIB([cerf], [voigt], ,
            [AC_MSG_ERROR(libcerf not found or out of sync)])

# From our own C++ packages (why checking for main? how else?)
AC_CHECK_LIB([trivia], [main], ,
                       [AC_MSG_ERROR(libtrivia not found or out of sync)])
AC_CHECK_LIB([readplus], [main],,
                 [AC_MSG_ERROR(library readplus not found)])
AC_CHECK_LIB([yamlfreeze], [main],,
                 [AC_MSG_ERROR(library yamlfreeze not found)])

################################################################################
##  Check for facilities needed at run time                                   ##
################################################################################

AC_CHECK_PROGS([GNUPLOT], [gnuplot], [:])
if test "$GNUPLOT" = :; then
  AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find gnuplot. Aborting.])
fi

################################################################################
##  make Makefiles                                                            ##
################################################################################

AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile man/Makefile share/Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT

问题是否是由于存在不属于 tarball 的文件造成的？这里是 tgz 存档的内容，除了源文件本身:

frida2.1.8c/aclocal.m4
frida2.1.8c/build-aux/
frida2.1.8c/build-aux/depcomp
frida2.1.8c/build-aux/ylwrap
frida2.1.8c/build-aux/ltmain.sh
frida2.1.8c/build-aux/missing
frida2.1.8c/build-aux/install-sh
frida2.1.8c/build-aux/config.guess
frida2.1.8c/build-aux/config.sub
frida2.1.8c/CHANGELOG
frida2.1.8c/config.h.in
frida2.1.8c/configure
frida2.1.8c/configure.ac
frida2.1.8c/COPYING
frida2.1.8c/INSTALL
frida2.1.8c/m4/
frida2.1.8c/m4/libtool.m4
frida2.1.8c/m4/m4_ax_boost_regex.m4
frida2.1.8c/m4/ltversion.m4
frida2.1.8c/m4/ltoptions.m4
frida2.1.8c/m4/lt~obsolete.m4
frida2.1.8c/m4/m4_ax_boost_base.m4
frida2.1.8c/m4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4
frida2.1.8c/m4/ltsugar.m4
frida2.1.8c/Makefile.am
frida2.1.8c/Makefile.in
frida2.1.8c/man/
...
frida2.1.8c/share/
...
frida2.1.8c/src/
...
frida2.1.8c/test/
...

Answer 1

好吧，我也遇到了这个问题，这让我发疯。问题似乎是我正在对源代码进行 svn 导出来制作我的 src tarball。

现在很好，但如果我错了请纠正我，但我认为 svn 只提交已修改的文件，而不是触及的文件。这意味着当您使用 svn 导出来检查文件时，文件可能会按时间顺序排列错误，即使文件如下:

configure.ac aclocal.m4 配置Makefile.am Makefile.in

最近都接触过，svn的日期戳不会更新；所以当你发布源码包时，日期的顺序是错误的，配置阶段将会失败(不太明显)。

完成 svn 导出后，请记住在使用以下命令将 src 捆绑到 tar.gz 之前始终触摸这些文件:

svn export <repo address>
cd <repo name>    
touch configure.ac aclocal.m4 configure Makefile.am Makefile.in

否则，用户将被迫触摸文件本身:

touch configure.ac aclocal.m4 configure Makefile.am Makefile.in
./configure
make

或运行:

autoreconf
./configure
automake
make

它将修改这些文件，而不仅仅是:

./configure
make

这对于最终用户来说更容易。