Re: libxcb build failure: /bin/sh: /home/miki/install-sh: No such file or directory

[Alain Kalker]

On 07/02/2013 05:45 PM, Alain Kalker wrote:
> Building libxcb 1.9.1 [1][2] on Arch linux (Autoconf 2.69, Automake 
> 1.14) fails with the following error:
The exact commands used to build:

$ export PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr \
    --enable-xinput \
    --enable-xkb \
    --disable-static
$ make

> 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
For the full build log, see [3].
> From some research done in the bug report at [3], it appears to be 
> caused by ac_aux_dir not being properly initialized, causing
> $am_aux_dir to be set to ${HOME} , and as a consequense $install_sh to 
> be 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 a 
> particular ordering of the macros in configure.ac is required. How can 
> it 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