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From:	Alain Kalker
Subject:	libxcb build failure: /bin/sh: /home/miki/install-sh: No such file or directory
Date:	Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:45:54 +0200
User-agent:	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7

Building libxcb 1.9.1 [1][2] on Arch linux (Autoconf 2.69, Automake1.14) fails with the following error:


Making install in doc

make[1]: Entering directory`/home/miki/pkg/abs/extra/libxcb/src/libxcb-1.9.1/doc'make[2]: Entering directory`/home/miki/pkg/abs/extra/libxcb/src/libxcb-1.9.1/doc'

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.

/bin/sh /home/miki/install-sh -d'/home/miki/pkg/abs/extra/libxcb/pkg/libxcb/usr/share/doc/libxcb'

/bin/sh: /home/miki/install-sh: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 127

make[2]: Leaving directory`/home/miki/pkg/abs/extra/libxcb/src/libxcb-1.9.1/doc'

make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory`/home/miki/pkg/abs/extra/libxcb/src/libxcb-1.9.1/doc'

make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

From some research done in the bug report at [3], it appears to becaused by ac_aux_dir not being properly initialized, causing$am_aux_dir to be set to ${HOME} , and as a consequense $install_sh tobe set to ${HOME}/install-sh .


Interestingly, reordering lines in configure.ac such that

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2])

comes before

AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([xcb.pc.in])

appears to resolve the build failure.

As an alternative, adding

AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR

-or-

AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])

causes the build to complete successfully.

My additional questions:

- AFAWCT, nothing in the documentation seems to suggest that aparticular ordering of the macros in configure.ac is required. How canit be that reordering the macros causes different behaviour?


Kind regards,

Alain Kalker

[1]: http://xcb.freedesktop.org/
[2]: http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/libxcb-1.9.1.tar.bz2
[3]: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66413

---[testsuite.log]---
## ----------------------------- ##
## GNU Autoconf 2.69 test suite. ##
## ----------------------------- ##

testsuite: command line was:
  $ ./testsuite

## ---------- ##
## ChangeLog. ##
## ---------- ##

| 2012-04-24  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
|
|     Release Version 2.69.
|     * NEWS: Mention the release.
|
| 2012-04-24  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
|
|     maint: drop bz2 tarball
|     At 2.68b, I asked whether anyone would miss .gz and .bz2 formats.
|     Consensus was overwhelming that .gz still holds a place in people's

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = miki-desktop
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 3.9.8-1-ARCH
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 27 21:37:31 CEST 2013

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /home/miki/pkg/abs/core/autoconf/src/autoconf-2.69/tests
PATH: /usr/lib/ccache/bin
PATH: /home/miki/.local/go/bin
PATH: /home/miki/bin
PATH: /home/miki/.local/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /opt/android-sdk/build-tools/17.0.0/
PATH: /opt/android-sdk/platform-tools
PATH: /opt/android-sdk/tools
PATH: /usr/bin/vendor_perl
PATH: /usr/bin/core_perl
PATH: /opt/vmware/bin

testsuite: atconfig:
| # Configurable variable values for building test suites.
| # Generated by ./config.status.
| # Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|
| # The test suite will define top_srcdir=/../.. etc.
| at_testdir='tests'
| abs_builddir='/home/miki/pkg/abs/core/autoconf/src/autoconf-2.69/tests'
| at_srcdir='.'
| abs_srcdir='/home/miki/pkg/abs/core/autoconf/src/autoconf-2.69/tests'
| at_top_srcdir='..'
| abs_top_srcdir='/home/miki/pkg/abs/core/autoconf/src/autoconf-2.69'
| at_top_build_prefix='../'
| abs_top_builddir='/home/miki/pkg/abs/core/autoconf/src/autoconf-2.69'
|
| # Backward compatibility with Autotest <= 2.59b:
| at_top_builddir=$at_top_build_prefix
|
| AUTOTEST_PATH='tests'
|
| SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL-'/bin/sh'}

testsuite: atlocal:
| # -*- shell-script -*-
| # tests/atlocal.  Generated from atlocal.in by configure.
| # Configurable variable values for Autoconf test suite.
|
| # Copyright (C) 2000-2001, 2005, 2008-2012 Free Software Foundation,
| # Inc.
| #
| # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
| # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
| # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
| # (at your option) any later version.
| #
| # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
| # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
| # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
| # GNU General Public License for more details.
| #
| # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
| # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
|
| PERL='/usr/bin/perl'
| GREP='/usr/bin/grep'
| EGREP='/usr/bin/grep -E'
| SED='/usr/bin/sed'
|
| # We need to know if sh -n is ok.
| ac_cv_sh_n_works='yes'
|
| # Check whether the underlying system can manage some unusual
| # symbols in file names.
| if test -z ''; then
|   func_sanitize_file_name () { echo "$@"; }
| else
|   func_sanitize_file_name () { echo "$@" | tr -d ''; }
| fi
|
| # Can we create directories with trailing whitespace in their names?
| ac_cv_dir_trailing_space='yes'
| if test "$ac_cv_dir_trailing_space" = yes; then
|   func_sanitize_dir_name () { echo "$@"; }
| else
|   func_sanitize_dir_name () { echo "$@" | sed 's/  *$//'; }
| fi
|
| # AUTOM4TE might be set in the environment.  Override it here so that
| # direct aclocal invocations also use it.
| AUTOM4TE=autom4te
| export AUTOM4TE

## ---------------- ##
## Tested programs. ##
## ---------------- ##

./local.at:527:/home/miki/pkg/abs/core/autoconf/src/autoconf-2.69/tests/autom4te --version

autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later