Re: 'make clean' not working

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Andraea,

> Le 21 sept. 2021 à 16:45, Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org> a écrit 
> :
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to rebuild a bison-3.8 release tree, but "make clean" aborts
> with this error:
> 
> 
> CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash 
> '/root/bison-3.8/build-aux/missing' autoconf
> /root/bison-3.8/build-aux/missing: line 81: autoconf: command not found
> WARNING: 'autoconf' is missing on your system.
>         You should only need it if you modified 'configure.ac',
>         or m4 files included by it.
>         The 'autoconf' program is part of the GNU Autoconf package:
>         <https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
>         It also requires GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
>         <https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
>         <https://www.perl.org/>
> Makefile:3894: recipe for target 'configure' failed
> make: *** [configure] Error 127
> 
> 
> Is it expected?

Nope.

> I don't think I modified configure.ac or any m4 file, so
> autoconf shouldn't be needed. Also, I think it's unusual in any case to
> require autotools for a basic operation such as make clean.

Yes, it is.

> I'm on a recent GNU/Hurd release, if it's important.

It shouldn't be.


I can't reproduce your problem.  I have run configure, make, make clean,
make, without any problem (autoconf was not called).  Maybe something was
touched in your tree, I don't know.

Cheers!